Voting Rights Under Attack
This term means to prevent a person or group from exercising the right to vote.
What is disenfranchise/disenfranchisement?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This leader founded the Tuskegee Institute and emphasized education, job skills, and economic advancement.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This 1875 law attempted to guarantee equal access to public places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Voters were required to pay this fee before being allowed to vote.
What is a poll tax?
These laws restricted where Black people could live, work, buy property, and conduct business after slavery ended.
What are Black Codes
Louisiana required segregated railroad cars through this law.
What is the Separate Car Act?
This leader demanded full political, civil, and social rights for Black Americans.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
Congress passed this law in 1890 to increase Black students' access to higher education.
What is the Second Morrill Act?
This voting restriction required citizens to demonstrate their ability to read or understand written material.
What is a literacy test?
Under this system, people convicted of crimes could be forced to work for businesses or individuals.
What is the convict lease program?
This man intentionally sat in a railroad car designated for White passengers to challenge Louisiana's segregation law.
Who is Homer Plessy?
This journalist and activist focused much of her work on exposing and fighting lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
The Second Morrill Act helped fund this type of college, including Southern University.
What are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)?
Louisiana's 1898 Constitution used voting requirements primarily to reduce the political power of this group.
Who are Black Americans?
Give TWO examples of how Jim Crow affected Black Americans.
Possible answers include segregation, inferior facilities, denial of services, restricted voting, and limited opportunities.
What doctrine did the Supreme Court uphold in Plessy v. Ferguson?
What is “separate but equal”?
his activist believed organizations could help bring change for both African Americans and women.
Who is Mary Church Terrell?
W.E.B. Du Bois and other Black leaders founded this organization to demand full political and civil rights.
What is the Niagara Movement?
Explain the connection between literacy tests and poll taxes during the Jim Crow era.
Both were barriers used to prevent many Black Americans from voting.
The Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow laws used different methods but produced similar results. What happened to prejudice and opportunities for Black Americans?
Prejudice and injustice increased while opportunities became more limited.
Put these events in chronological order: Supreme Court decides Plessy; Louisiana passes the Separate Car Act; Plessy challenges segregation by sitting in a White railroad car.
Separate Car Act → Plessy challenges the law → Supreme Court decides Plessy v. Ferguson.
How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differ in their approaches to racial equality?
Washington emphasized economic advancement, education, and job skills, while Du Bois demanded immediate full civil, political, and social equality.
This organization was founded by Black and White Americans and used publicity, lobbying, and legal action to fight for Black Americans' rights.
What is the NAACP?