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A system under which the state would lease prisoners to private businesses, which saved the state money and was profitable for the businesses but was hard on prisoners.
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Chapter 12
Chapter 12-An Era of Change
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A person who had not accepted the changes brought about by the Civil War, particularly the abolition of slavery. | Bourbon Democrat |
| A system under which the state would lease prisoners to private businesses, which saved the state money and was profitable for the businesses but was hard on prisoners. | convict lease system |
| Laws enacted by southern legislators that restricted the freedom of African Americans and required separate-but equal public facilities for whites and for blacks. | Jim Crow laws |
| A tax that had to be paid before a person could vote. | poll tax |
| A law that gave a person the right to vote if he could demonstrate that his father or grandfather had been a voter before 1867. | grandfather clause |
| A labor system in which a planter would rent a portion of his land to a farmer who agreed to raise a cash crop and give a share to the farmer, in exchange for the land and access to a house. | sharecropping |
| The situation when a sharecropper or small farmer could not escape a cycle of credit, debt, and increasing poverty. | debt peonage |
| The time in late autumn for the harvesting of sugarcane. | grinding season |
| Groups similar to unions that attempted to use the power of group organizing to advocate for better conditions for farmers. | Farmers’ Alliance |
| Belief in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people. | populism |
| A movement based on the belief that government could and should be used to help address social problems like poverty, illiteracy, and improving the conditions for all workers. | Progressive movement |
| The joining together of wealthy sugar planters and poor farmers to challenge/remove Democrats from power. | Fusion movement |
| The right to vote. | suffrage |
| What were the central beliefs of the post-Reconstruction Democratic Party? | white supremacy, social segregation, and small government |
| Which explains why the attendance of Generals Beauregard and Early was advertised to potential consumers? (Take Notice) | Their military history gave the event more credibility and fanfare |
| How much did the Louisiana State Lottery Company agree to pay the state each year? | $40,000 |
| How was the Louisiana Lottery able to become so powerful? | It contributed large amounts of money to elected officials. |
| Which explains how the New Orleans Ring and the Lottery Company maintained control of New Orleans? | They bought votes with small cash payments or patronage jobs. |
| Which explains the dangers of the convict lease system? | Convicts were physically abused, neglected, and frequently died. |
| How did the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson ruling impact southern legislatures? | They passed additional segregation statues. |
| Which caption best describes the photograph? (water fountain) | Laws required separate-but-equal public facilities for whites and African Americans. |
| This photograph captures the effect of which legislation? (water fountain) | Jim Crow laws |
| Which viewpoint is expressed in this cartoon? (bus) | Jim Crow laws provide separation but not equality. |
| What measures were added to the Constitution of 1898 to further limit the voting rights of African Americans and poor whites? | literacy tests, poll taxes, and property requirements |
| How did the adoption of a grandfather clause affect voters in Louisiana? | It successfully disfranchised the majority of African American voters. |
| Which Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920? | Nineteenth |
| Louisiana is credited with the birth of which genre of music? | Jazz |
| Which famous Louisiana musician became a world ambassador for jazz music? | Louis Armstrong |
| Which statement best explains how Louisiana was affected by reformers like the Gordon sisters in the early 1900s? | Women in Louisiana were organized to fight for voting rights. |
| Which statement best explains why it was important to change child labor laws in Louisiana? | Children were working long hours in unsafe conditions. |
| Which statement best explains why people became sharecroppers? | They were poor and without land and had few other options. |
| Which statement best explains why it was difficult to leave the system of sharecropping? | Sharecroppers continued to remain in debt to the landowners. |
| What are some examples of corruption during this time period? | Louisiana Lottery & Convict Lease System |
| What di the Plessy vs Ferguson case legally establish? | The Separate but Equal concept |
| Which activities were designed to keep freedmen from full participation in society? | disfranchisement, sharecropping, convict lease system, segregation |
| Which were inventions or leisure activities that changed life for people during this time period? | automobile, telephone, electricity, jazz, street cars & catalog shopping |
| How did the Constitution of 1879 differ from the state's previous constitution? | It limited voting rights for freedmen and had many government changes. |
| What political party was in power in LA based on the changes made to the Constitution of 1898? | Bourbon Democrats (Redeemers) |
| Which Amendment took away literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause? | 15th |
| When Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to move from the "white's only" rail car, which Constitutional Amendments did Plessy's lawyer argue that his arrest violated? | 13th & 14th |
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