Jim Crow & Voting
These laws required public and private facilities to be separated by race.
What are Jim Crow laws?
These were laws passed by southern states after the Civil War to control formerly enslaved people.
What are Black Codes?
By the 1700s, the Sioux had acquired these animals, which helped them hunt buffalo on the Plains.
What are horses?
In the late 1800s, many farmers struggled because these dropped.
What are crop prices?
Political machines were strongest in urban areas with large populations of these newcomers.
Who were immigrants?
This fee was used to prevent many African Americans from voting.
What is a poll tax?
This Supreme Court case said segregation was legal if facilities were “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
White settlers repeatedly broke these formal agreements made with Native American tribes.
What are treaties?
Because of debt and falling crop prices, many farmers lost ownership of this.
What is their land?
This New York City political machine became famous for corruption.
What is Tammany Hall?
This term means separating people in public places based on race.
What is segregation?
This doctrine justified segregation after 1896.
What is separate but equal?
Along with Little Bighorn, this was one of the conflicts involving the Sioux.
What is Red Cloud’s War?
In the 1920s, many small farmers lost their farms because of crop failures and this.
What is debt?
This leader of Tammany Hall was convicted of stealing millions from the public treasury.
Who was William “Boss” Tweed?
This term means taking away someone’s right to vote.
What is disfranchisement?
This term means unfair treatment of people because of race, color, gender, or national origin.
What is discrimination?
Native American governments in the 1800s were best described as being based on this social structure.
What is kinship?
One long-term result of farm failures was that these financial institutions lost money.
What are banks?
This movement encouraged churches to take action against poverty and poor social conditions.
What is the Social Gospel movement?
This type of test was used unfairly to keep African Americans from voting, even though it was not one of the answers used in Question 1.
What is a literacy test?
Black Codes and Jim Crow laws were both designed to limit the rights of this group in particular.
Who were African Americans / formerly enslaved people?
The Seminole were part of this cultural region of Native Americans.
What is the Southeast culture group?
Many of these closed when farmers lost their land and could no longer support the local economy.
What are farm-related businesses?
During the Great Migration, many African Americans moved North in search of these.
What are higher wages or better job opportunities?