Segregation and Discrimination

Who worked as a teacher and later became an editor of a local paper. Racial justice was a persistent theme in her reporting

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Mother Jones

• Catherine Beecher

Along with African Americans and Native Americans, what other groups encountered bitter forms of oppresion.

• Mexican residents

• Chinese immigrants

• Polish Jews

• Brazilians

• Australian Immigrants

African Americans exercised political and social rights and faced violent opposition. They fell victim to laws restricting their ____

• civil rights

• political rights

• military rights

• educational rights

States in the ____ started to adopt a broad system of legal policies of racial descrimination to weaken African American political power

• North

• South

• East

• West

Southern states imposed new ​ (a)   restrictions and denied ​ (b)   equality to African Americans. Some states limited the vote to people who could ​ (c)  

• voting
• legal
• read
• educational
• business
• managerial
• work

​ (a)   trying to ​ (b)   were often asked ​ (c)   questions than ​ (d)   , or given a test in a foreign language. ​ (e)   could pass or fail applicants as they wished.

• Blacks
• vote
• more difficult
• whites
• Officials
• easier
• Politicians

Another requirement to vote was a ​ (a)   . Blacks and white ​ (b)   were often too ​ (c)   to pay the tax.

• poll tax
• sharecroppers
• poor
• voting tax
• excise tax
• carpetbaggers
• rich

To reinstate ​ (a)   voters who may have failed the ​ (b)   or the ​ (c)   , several Southern states added the ​ (d)   . The clause stated that a man could be entitled to vote if he, his father, or grandfather had been eilgible to vote before January 1, 1867.

• white
• literacy test
• poll tax
• grandfather clause
• black
• excise tax
• grandmother clause
• British

During the 1870s and 1880s, the ____ failed to overturn the poll tax or the grandfather clause even though the laws undermined all federal protections for African American's civil rights.

• Supreme Court

• Congress

• The World Coucil

• The President

​ (a)   states passed racial ​ (b)   laws to separate white and black people in ​ (c)   and ​ (d)   facilities. These laws cae to be known as ​ (e)  

• Southern
• segregation
• public
• private
• Jim Crow laws
• Norther
• Eastern
• integration
• John Crow laws
• individual