Jim Crow Louisiana Content Knowledge Unit 4

separate but equal” segregation ordinances enacted by states to prevent African-Americans from advancing politically, socially, and economically

• Jim Crow Laws

• poll tax

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Grandfather Clause

name given to southern whites who wanted to restore Democratic rule of the South after Reconstruction, which resulted in the political, social, and economic oppression of freedmen

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Redeemers

the state constitution written after Plessy v. Ferguson that implemented segregation and used Jim Crow laws to restrict voting

• Constitution of 1879

• Constitution of 1852

• Constitution of 1864

• Constitution of 1898

a method used to deny suffrage that required one to prove his ability to read

• grandfather clause

• poll tax

• literacy test

• Jim Crow laws

agricultural system that replaced slavery as a cheap form of labor, typically keeping laborers in debt to landowners

• slavery

• feudalism

• agriculture

• sharecropping

to deny suffrage

• sharecropping

• literacy test

• Reconstruction Amendments

• disenfranchise

a Jim Crow law that allowed people to vote if they or their ancestors voted before 1867, resulting in the disenfranchisement of freedmen

• poll tax

• grandfather clause

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen’s Bureau

a Jim Crow law that required one to pay in order to vote, disenfranchising members of the lower class

• literacy test

• sharecropping

• grandfather clause

• poll tax

name given to African Americans who settled the West after escaping political, social, and economic oppression in the South

• Redeemers

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Exodusters

a challenge to a Louisiana law allowing segregated railroad cars in which the US Supreme Court decided that segregated public facilities were Constitutional if equal in quality and availability

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Marbury v. Madison