Unit 4 Topic 1 Vocab - Jim Crow

A person who had not accepted the changes brought about by the Civil War, particularly the abolition of slavery

• Bourbon Democrat

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Disenfranchisement

• Suffrage

A law that gave a person the right to vote if he could demonstrate that his father or grandfather had been a voter

• Poll tax

• Grandfather clause

• Literacy test

• Suffrage

Laws enacted by southern legislators that restricted the freedom of African Americans and required separate-but-equal public facilities for whites and blacks

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Poll tax

• Jim Crow laws

• black codes

A tax that had to be paid before a person could vote

• Jim Crow tax

• Grandfather clause

• Literacy test

• Poll tax

A labor system in which a planter would rent a portion of his land to a farmer who agreed to raise a cash crop and give a share to planter in exchange for the land and access to a house

• Sharecropping

• Jim Crow laws

• Segregation

• Disenfranchisement

the separation of people by race

• Literacy test

• Jim Crow laws

• Segregation

• Disenfranchisement

1896 Supreme Court case where the court ruled that separate-but-equal was constitutional, making segregation legal

• Literacy test

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Poll tax

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

The right to vote

• suffrage

• Disenfranchisement

• Poll tax

• Bourbon Democrat

the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.

• Suffrage

• Disenfranchisement

• Poll tax

• Literacy test

A test administered to a potential voter which tested one’s ability to read and write; usually ambiguous and highly subjective;used to disqualify African American voters

• Grandfather test

• Literacy test

• Poll tax

• Segregation