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4.4 The New South
Question | Answer |
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Sharecropping | A farmer would work a part of the land in trade for a share of the crop, a cabon, seed, tools, and a mule. |
Crop-lien system | Since the sharecroppers had no income till the harvest time and they needed to obtain the needed supplies each year, they promised their crops to local merchants who then sold them goods on credit. |
Poll taxes | Fixed taxes imposed on every voter. |
Literacy tests | Tests that barred those who could not read from voting. |
Segregation | Separation of race |
Jim Crow laws | Required there to be separate train cars for each white and blacks. |
Plessy vs Ferguson | A lawsuit brought in 1896 after African American Homer Plessy was denied a seat in first-class railway car. |
Madame C J Walker |