#1: The Rise of Jim Crow
The Bourbon Democrats emphasized limiting the size of government and what?
Maintaining White Supremacy
The vast majority of Louisiana's people were poor, landless, and faced with ongoing ________ ________.
Economic Challenges
Most farmers and planters continued the antebellum practices of raising a single:
cash crop
During the late 1880's, the Bourbon Democrats controlled the southern legislatures and began passing what laws that pushed for radical segregation for blacks and whites?
The Jim Crow Laws
Define poll tax...
A poll tax was for property owners. They had to pay a poll tax before they were given the right to vote.
The most successful development came in the expansion of _____ cultivation in _______ Louisiana. *Hint: Crowley hosts a festival for this product.*
Rice
Southwestern
No slave labor forced planters with a lot of land to start a system of hiring workers called what?
Sharecropping
Name 3 cash crops that were cultivated in Louisiana during this era.
Cotton, sugar, and rice
Describe the Convict Lease system...
This system leased prisoners as workers to private businesses in exchange money.
Because Louisiana had very high rates of ________, the requirement that voters had to know how to ________, and ________ ruled out many poor whites and former slaves.
Illiteracy
read
write
What happened to cause workers to unionize?
Sugar planters suffered a loss and decided to reduce their workers pay to make up for it.
Did the Convict Lease System work? Why or why not? Explain...
No, it didn't work because of the corruption. Prisoners suffered abuse, neglect, and death within 6 years.
Describe the "Grandfather Clause"
The grandfather clause was a law that gave a person the right to vote if he could show or prove that his grandfather had been a voter before 1867.
Describe sharecropping...
In return for the land and access to a small house, the farmer promised the landowner an agreed-upon portion, or share, of the crop he and his family raised.
List some of the segregated statues during Jim Crow...
Separate: railroad cars, schools, hospitals, cemeteries, bathrooms, restaurants, movie theaters...almost every aspect of life was segregated