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What is a tax that had to be paid before a person could vote?
Poll Tax
What is a 100-year anniversary?
Centennial
What is the women's right to vote?
Women's Suffrage
What is an official valuation of property for tax purposes?
Property Assessment
What legislation was passed in the late 1800s that segregated public schools and other public facilities?
Jim Crow Laws
What is a person being trained by a more experienced person?
Protege
What is an arrangement in which prisoners were leased as laborers to private entities, which were responsible for their upkeep?
Convict Lease System
What is immersing animals in a solution to eradicate disease by killing bacteria or parasites?
Dipping
What was the migration of blacks, mostly farm workers, from Mississippi to Kansas and other midwestern states after Reconstruction?
Exodus
What is a fraternal organization of white farmers that began in Texas in the mid-1870s and swept across the South in the late 1880s
Farmer's Alliance
What is a document that creates a new corporation, a new city or an educational institution?
Charter
A nominating election in which all the party's members, not just those attending a nominating convention.
Direct Primary
What is murder by mob, usually by hanging?
Lynching
A test to determine whether a person could read or write before being allowed to vote.
What is the exclusive ownership or control of a product or industry by one company or group?
Monopoly
A state law that required sharecroppers to remain on the land until all their debts were paid.
Crop Lien Law
What was the state constitution drafted by the Bourbons to help them control the state legislature and disenfranchise blacks and poor whites?
Bourbon constitution
A 1954 US Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy vs Ferguson
Brown v Board of Edu
White farmers who tried to drive black landowners off their land
White Cappers
An 1895 US Supreme Court decision that ruled that racial segregation of public facilities did not violate the US Constitution if the separate facilities were equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
A time, beginning after 1910, when many Mississippians blacks migrated to northern states in search of jobs and a better life.
Great Migration