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The Legal stuff

100

The job of this branch of government is to protect the constitution and decide, when asked, if laws passed by federal or state governments are constitutional or not.

What is the supreme court

200

A term that represents the following rights:

• The right to vote in elections

• The right to equal treatment under the law

• The right to a fair trial

• The right to free speech, religion and movement

What are civil rights

300

This amendment abolished slavery at the end of the Civil War

The 13th amendment

400

This amendment forbids any state to deny any person ¨life, liberty or property without due process of law¨ or to ¨deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws¨

What is the 14th amendment?

500

These were state and local laws that legalized racial segregation

Jim crow laws

Actors

100

Organization that terrorized African Americans in the South with sheer violence at the end of the Civil War and by the 20th century grew to the millions

KKK

200

Few freedmen were given land after the Civil War, most ended up as this. They had to rent land and share their crops with landowner, thus they entered a sort of economic servitude

Sharecropper

300

If you were especially these two characteristics, you were considered an American patriot, or truly "American" to the Klansmen

White and protestant

400

The President that said "These white Southerners are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in schools alongside some big black bucks"

Who is Eisenhower

500

This case stated that segregation was not unconstitutional as long as separate facilities were equal

What is Plessy v Ferguson

And more stuff

100

Citizens were required to pay this in order to vote in the South

Poll tax

200

This principle, based on Plessy v Ferguson, is the way that southern law makers avoided going against the 14th amendment when enacting Jim Crow Laws

What is the principle "separate but equal" 

300

Poor white folk did not have to pay the poll tax if they could prove this

Grandfather or father voted before 1870

400

Three examples of the impact of Jim Crow laws on social lives of African Americans

Marriage, Facilities, Education

500

True or False? IN the North there was dejure segregation

False, De facto