Amendments
Abolished Slavery
13th
Northerners who moved South
Carpetbaggers
near-impossible tests designed to purposefully keep African Americans from voting
Literacy Tests
the aspect of Jim Crow Laws that is most recognizable
Segregation
growth of towns/cities to house the factories and the working class
Urbanization
Equal Protection
14th
Southerners who supported reconstruction
Scalawags
tax paid six months in advance (Sharecroppers could not afford to pay)
Poll Taxes
said that segregation was legal as long as things were kept "separate but equal",
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
increase in railroads in order to transport mass-produced goods
Railroad Boom
African Americans' Suffrage
15th
became President upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865
Andrew Johnson
redrawing voting districts to prevent a black majority
Gerrymandering
African Americans who went against Jim Crow ideals often found themselves subject to violence and intimidation by
KKK
Industrialization in South Carolina was dominated by one particular type of factory
Textile Mills
created an income tax
16th
laws that were designed to limit the rights and govern the conduct of free blacks
Black Codes
votes cast in separate boxes, if you could not read, vote was put in wrong box.
Eight Box Law-
"slavery by another name"
Sharecropping
Northern factory jobs were filled mainly by
European immigrants
required that voters elect senators to Congress
17th
name given to the period of Reconstruction that was driven by Republican-controlled Congress
Radical Reconstruction
exempted poor whites from disenfranchisement laws by saying that if your grandfather could vote, you were automatically exempt from any of the previous restrictions.
“Grandfather Clause”
Southern Democrats took over control of South Carolina
"Redeemers"
took the textile mill jobs in South Carolina
Poor whites