Segregation
These laws, emerging the in the late 19th century, enforced racial separation in public facilities, transportation, and everyday life in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
In what region of the United States did most lynchings occur in the late 19th century?
What is the South?
Made it so that the only people who are eligible to vote are the people whose father and/or grandfather was eligible to vote before 1867. Black men were unable to vote until after 1870.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This party is also know as the peoples' party
What is the Populist Party
The name of black people who worked on plantations after slavery in exchange for housing, food, and clothing. They also gave the landowner 1/2 or 3/4 of their crops.
What are sharecroppers?
Southern states justified segreagtion by claiming it preserved social order and protected this group's dominance.
What is white Americans?
What larger purpose did lynching serve in Southern society?
What is enforcing white supremacy through fear
Which Deep Southern state was the most successful in their effort to eliminate black voters legally?
What is Mississippi?
What were a variety of techniques in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to prevent black people from voting called?
What is disenfranchisement
What type of conflict formed between black people when the women were able to find work and the men weren't?
What are familial conflicts during the Great Migration?
According to the text, this form of segregation forced Black Americans into inferior railroad cars, streetcars, and waiting rooms.
What is segregation in transportation?
How did local authorities typically respond to lynch mobs?
What is nothing?
How did white landlords influence the ballots of Black sharecroppers and renters?
What is, through intimidation and bribes
What bill, also known as the force bill, protected the voting rights of African American men in the South by providing federal supervision for elections
What is the Federal Elections Bill
This term refers to Exodus in the bible, when the Hebrew slaves were freed from Egypt and left to go to the promised land.
What are Exodusters?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld segregation by declaring that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
What justification did many white Southerns claim as the reason for lynching Black men?
What is protecting white women from sexual assault?
Which disenfranchisement tactic used a literacy test that separated the ballot boxes by race?
What is the Eight Box Law?
This is the name of the method used by southern states, which stipulated that only men whose grandfathers were eligible to vote were themselves eligible to vote
What is the Grandfather Clause?
This plan was made by black leaders in South Carolina to go back to Liberia.
What is the Liberian Exodus?
This unwritten set of behavioral rules dictated how Black Americans were expected to act around white people, including avoiding eye contact or certain forms of speech.
During which decade did lynching reach its peak, according to the graph in the chapter?
What is the 1890s?
According to the South Carolina Supreme Court, what was wrong with black congressman Thomas E. Miller's ballot?
What is, his ballots were printed on "white paper of a distinctly yellow tinge"
This Alliance was formed by black southern farmers in the 1880s and 1890's and advocated for the improved conditions of black landowners, sharecroppers, and renters
What is the Colored Farmers' Alliance
How many black Exodusters moved to Kansas between 1865 and 1880?
What is 40,000?