Farmers Rights
Who started the populist party?
Tom Watson
What was one of there main goals?
To prevent blacks from voting.
What is a property tax?
A tax that has to be paid by the owner of the property in order to keep it.
What where Jim Crow laws?
Laws passed to discriminate against Blacks.
Who is Leo Frank?
A jewish factory worker, who was falsely convicted for the murder of a thirteen y/o girl.
What did farmers rights do?
Helped poor farmers
How did they stop blacks from voting?
By surrounding polling hold in places and by using various methods.
What is a poll tax?
A one dollar tax, that needs to be paid in order to vote.
What where some segregated places?
Parks, Benches, Elevators, Busses, Restaurants, and Schools.
What was the Atlanta Riot?
A public outbreak of whites and blacks fighting.
What did the delivery rural free bill do?
Required free daily mail/newspaper delivery to rural farmers.
What type of tactics did they use?
Scare tactics and intimidation.
What is a literacy tax?
Where you had to prove you could read and write, in order to vote.
What case challenged Jim Crow laws?
Plessy vs. Ferguson.
What did W.E.B Du Bois believe in?
Full political, Civil, and Social rights for blacks.
What did the populist party believe in?
Political and economical power.
Why did African Americans stay away from the polls?
The fear of racial violence.
What was wrong with the 15th amendment?
Black people still couldn't vote because of disenfranchisement.
What did Plessy vs. Ferguson accomplish?
separate but equal facilities.
A freed slave that started his own barber shop, and provided insurance for other blacked own businesses.
What did the populist party do?
Lower state taxes, build railroads, and made better roads.
What was one of there methods of intimidation?
They burned crosses in front of black peoples homes.
What where the voting restrictions?
Poll tax, Literacy tax, and Property tax.
What did most black people do in order to have a job?
Started there own business.
What did Booker T. Washington believe in?
He believed that blacks should not fight back and should work hard and endure segregation/discrimination.