Civics - Chapter 4, Lessons 3 and 4 Vocabulary

laws from after the Civil War that kept African Americans from holding certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited their rights in other ways

• suffrage

• segregation

• black codes

• civil rights

the right to vote

• poll tax

• hate crime

• sit-in

• suffrage

a sum of money required of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot

• poll tax

• suffrage

• discrimination

• civil rights

unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group

• hate crime

• discrimination

• "Jim Crow" law

• sit-in

the social separation of the races

• poll tax

• segregation

• nonviolent resistance

• discrimination

Southern segregation law

• discrimination

• black codes

• nonviolent resistance

• "Jim Crow" law

the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law

• civil rights

• suffrage

• sit-in

• nonviolent resistance

peaceful protest against laws believed to be unfair

• black codes

• poll tax

• nonviolent resistance

• "Jim Crow" laws

the act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organized protest

• sit-in

• poll tax

• suffrage

• segregation

a violent act against a person because of his or her race, color, national origin, gender, or disability

• hate crime

• segregation

• discrimination

• civil rights