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Amendments
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a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
What is sharecropping
100
An election in which voters choose candidates to run on a party's ticket in a subsequent election for public office.
What is Direct Primary
100
a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with this style of music, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used
What is jazz
100
Laws that were added to the Constitution that spoke to the rights of individuals.
What is Bill of Rights
100
Freedom of press, religion, petition, assembly & speech
What is 1st amendment
200
a tax levied on every adult, without reference to income or resources.
What is poll tax
200
refers to reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for all popular magazines and continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting; often worked to expose social ills and corporate and political corruption.
What is muckracker
200
melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
What is blues
200
The laws that originated with the colonists to govern The United States of America
What is the Constitution
200
Abolished or outlawed slavery
What is 13th AMENDMENT
300
the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.
What is segregation
300
a method of municipal government under which a small elective commission exercises both executive and legislative powers and each commissioner directly administers one or more municipal departments.
What is commission plan
300
was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.
What is the great migration
300
The separation of the US from the British Rule
What is Declaration of Independence
300
Gave women the right to vote.
What is 19th AMENDMENT
400
racial segregation laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States
What is Jim Crow Laws
400
a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
What is KKK
400
the belief that the universe and living organisms originate from specific acts of divine creation, as in the biblical account, rather than by natural processes such as evolution
What is creationism
400
Regulated the division of land in the new colonies
What is Northwest Ordinance
400
outlaws literacy tests and poll taxes for voting
What is 24th amendment
500
kill, especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
What is lynching
500
fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior
What is flapper
500
The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
What is Eugenics
500
Printing things that are lies is not freedom of the press.
What is LIBEL
500
Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is 26th AMENDMENT