Racist Policies
The notion that each race has certain characteristics and those people of that race should be treated differently.
What is Discrimination?
The time between 1865 to 1877 when the federal government controlled the South.
What is Reconstruction?
The area in which certain laws or governmental bodies have power.
What is jurisdiction?
The job that was when people would farm on another's property for a piece of the revenue.
What is Sharecropping?
The governmental policy that was enacted that forced people of different races to be separated from each other.
What is Segregation.
Rights that are given to everyone no matter their race.
What are Civil Rights?
This means something is lawfully.
What is De Jure?
This was the movement that called for civil rights for African Americans after Reconstruction.
What was the Niagara Movement?
The laws created that governed only Black people, and those laws that limited the freedom of Black people.
What were Black Codes?
The amendments that were created after the Civil War that protected African Americans.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments 13th, 14th, and 15th?
This means that something is true.
What is De Facto?
The universities and colleges that were created on the land given to them by the federal government.
What were land grant institutions?
The compromise that resulted in the end of Reconstruction because of the close election the previous year.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
What is a Poll Tax
This bill guaranteed access to to things like schools, churches, and cemeteries to African Americans.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
The state of being in service against your control.
What is involuntary servitude?
A rule that said that governments can abide by previous laws and that would be changed from then on.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
What are colleges that were created to educate African Americans.
What are HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges)
What is Home Rule?