Segregation
Supreme Court case established “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
overcrowded apartment buildings housed many immigrants and poor factory workers in cities.
tenements
This system forced farmers to rent land and pay with crops.
sharecropping
people left rural areas because this type of work was becoming less available.
farming
unfair tests were used to prevent African Americans from voting.
literacy tests
Many people moved to cities in the late 1800s mainly to find these.
Jobs
payment required to vote kept many poor African Americans from voting.
poll tax
Most immigrants who came to cities worked in these places.
factories
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote after the Civil War.
the 15th Amendment
journalist exposed the harsh living conditions in New York City tenements.
Jacob Riis