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UNIT 3 TERMS
unit 3 terms
Term | Definition |
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Morrill Land Grant | an act passed in 1862 by the U.S Congress granted each state a large area of federal land to support an agricultural and mechanical college |
Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 U.S supreme court case decision that rules that segregation was legal as long as it was equal |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 U.S supreme court case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson |
Monopoly | exclusive ownership or control of a product or industry by one company or group |
color line politics | the exclusions of blacks from political affairs solely by one company or group |
black exodus | migration of blacks who were farmers, who moved from MS to Kansas and other Mid western states after the reconstruction era. |
Charter | document that creates a new corporation or a new city or educational institution |
lynching | murder by a mob, usually hanging |
piney woods school | a boarding school for blacks founded in 1909 by Laurence C. Jones in rural Rankin County |
Great Migration | a time, beginning after 1910, when many MS blacks migrated to northern states in search of jobs for a better life |
Property Assessment | official valuation of property for tax purposes |
Direct Primary | nominating election in which all party member's vote for the candidates of their choice |
Alternative | available as another possibility |
Ban | officially and legally prohibit |
capable | having the ability to |
deceptive | misleading, giving the appearance or impression from the true one |
Evidence | the available body of facts or information to prove something true or valid |
Feasible | Possible to do easily or conveniently |