Jim Crow
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws meant to segregate African-Americans and White people
How much percent African-American was Homer Plessy?
1/8th
The People's Party was also called the?
Populists party
True or false: The Louisiana Bourbons are described as reactionary.
True
Describe the system of sharecropping
Many African Americans and some whites made a living by renting small plots of land from landowners and pledging a percentage of their crops to the landowner
Railroads brought out the growth of what industry?
Lumber
What are two examples of Jim crow laws?
African Americans and White people must sit in separate sections of trains.
African Americans and White people must drink out of separate water fountains
African Americans and White people must use different restrooms
Why was Homer Plessy Arrested?
He sat in the White's only section of a train car and refused to move.
Who was populism designed to help?
Farmers/ the common man
To make money for the state
What was Convict leasing ?
When Louisiana needed money, so they leased out convicts/people in jail to people who needed workers
The first oil well drilled in Louisiana was where?
Jennings, Louisiana
Who created Jim Crow Laws?
Redeemer Democrats
Plessy v Ferguson established what concept?
Seperate but equal
Why did African-Americans and White Populist fuse together?
Identify a belief of the Bourbon Democrats.
They wanted to reinstate old laws;
restore power to the elites;
opposed Reconstruction and political and social equality between races;
want the big, cheap labor force
Why was convict leasing worse than slavery?
Convict died more than under slavery
Since the convicts were not considered property, the landowners did not care about their health
name 2 ways the expansion of railroads impact Louisiana?
Led to population growth in interior Louisiana
Railroads made it quicker to get and send goods
Railroads led to sawmills being created in the interior of Louisiana
Identify the topic of this Jim Crow law implemented in the 1898 Constitution
"No person less than sixty years of age shall be permitted to vote...of one dollar per annum"
Poll tax
What were the Majority Opinions the justices gave against Homer Plessy?
The Justices felt that Gov, did not have control over social rights just political rights
The Justices felt that separate facilities can still be equal.
What did Bourbon Democrats do to keep Populist candidates from winning elections in 1896?
African-American votes had been tampered with
African-Americans had been threatened to vote for democrats
How much did Louisiana recieve from the Louisiana Lottery company for charity hospitals?
$40,000
Identify the topic of this Jim Crow law implemented in the 1898 Constitution
"He shall be able to read and write, and shall demonstrate his ability to do so when he applies for registration"
literacy test
What are the environmental impacts of the oil industry?
Pollutants
speeding up of subsidence
Identify the topic of this Jim Crow law implemented in the 1898 Constitution
"No male person who was on January 1st, 1867, or at any date prior thereto, entitled to vote ...and no son or grandson of any such person...shall be denied the right to register and vote"
Grandfather Clause
What did the Justices say about African-Americans feeling inferior?
African-Americans should not feel inferior
They think if African-Americans feel inferior, it’s their own fault
What was the crop lien system? How did it affect farmers?
Farmers borrowed against next year’s crop to pay this year’s expenses
Caught in a credit cycle
What company/group bribed elected officials to vote for what they wanted and allowed them to become powerful?
Louisiana Lottery
Identify the topic of this Jim Crow law implemented in the 1898 Constitution
"shall be entitled to register and vote if he shall, at the time he offers to register, be the bona fide owner of property assessed to him in this State"
Property Requirements
How would railroads affect Louisiana's steamboat industry?