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Question | Answer |
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What was the goal of the KKK? | to use violence, intimidation and voter fraud to keep African Americans from keeping their rights |
What were some of the methods the KKK used to regain control of state governments? | public lynchings and cross burnings |
What was the Compromise of 1877? | Democrats agreed to support the election of Hayes in exchange for the removal of troops from the South. |
What was the result of the Compromise of 1877? | the end of Reconstruction and the end of federal protection of African American rights |
What were Jim Crow laws? | Southern laws passed after Reconstruction that discriminated against African Americans |
How were Jim Crow laws similar to slave codes and Black Codes? | They were designed to keep African Americans under control and whites in power |
What did some of the Jim Crow laws require? | separate facilities for African Americans in schools, housing, theaters, and on trains |
What is segregation? | separation of the races |
What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson? | Separate facilities were legal as long as they were equal |
How were African Americans discriminated against politically? | They had to pass a literacy test to vote. They had to pay a poll tax to vote. They could only vote if their grandfathers had voted. |
How were African Americans discriminated against socially? | They were forced to live and work separately. |
How were African Americans discriminated against economically? | They weren't allowed to hold many jobs and were the last hired and the first fired. |
Were African Americans discriminated against in the North? | yes, although there were no Jim Crow laws in the North |