The Legal stuff
Job is to protect the constitution and decide, when asked, if laws passed by federal or state governments are constitutional or not.
What is the supreme court
Organization that terrorized African Americans in the South with sheer violence at the end of the Civil War and by the 20th century grew to the millions
KKK
Poll tax
The right to vote in elections
The right to equal treatment under the law
The right to a fair trial
The right to free speech, religion and movement
What are civil rights
Few freedmen were given land after the Civil War, most ended up as this-rent land and share crop with landowner, thus they entered a sort of economic servitude
Sharecropper
The way that southern law makers avoided going against the 14th amendment with their Jim Crow Laws
What is the principle "separate but equal"
Abolished slavery at the end of the Civil War
The 13th amendment
Those considered an American patriot to the Klansmen
Poor white folk did not have to pay the poll tax if they could prove this
Grandfather or father voted before 1870
Forbids any state to deny any person ¨life, liberty or property without due process of law¨ or to ¨deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws¨
What is the 14th amendment?
Methods of the second KKK
Violence, Political power
Three examples of the impact of Jim Crow laws on social lives of African Americans
Marriage, Facilities, Education
state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation
Jim crow laws
This case stated that segregation was not unconstitutional as long as separate facilities were equal
What is Plessy v Ferguson
True or False? IN the North there was dejure segregation