The New South Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Crop-lien system | Arrangement in which sharecroppers promised their crops to merchants in exchange for supplies on credit. |
poll taxes | Taxes A person has to pay in order to vote. |
literacy tests | Tests used to prevent people who could not read from voting. |
segregation | Separation of people by category, usually race. |
Who is Madame C. J. Walker? Explain how she was able to do what she did. | She was one of the first African American women to become a millionaire. She had developed a hair conditioner in the attic of her home. She made about $100,000 per year after introducing it to the world. |
Name 5 examples of Jim Crow Laws. | The following... |
Example 1 | No different raced kids shall be able to play together. |
Example 2 | There shall be separate schools for kids each race. No colored kid shall be in a school with white. |
Example 3 | Trains or any other transportation should have colored and white just separated. |
Example 4 | No Colored and white man should be able to play cards, dice, domino, nor checkers. |
Example 5 | No full race or half of a different race shall be voided. |
Provide 3 or more real signs that are representative of the Jim Crow Laws. | Following... |
Example 1 | a sign for the bathrooms would say < White Colored> To separate the two races. |
Example 2 | They would have signs for parking. *Whites park here* *Colored park here* |
Example 3 | If there are different part in a building for colored and white they would put up signs saying COLORED > or WHITES> |
Describe the court case Plessy v. Ferguson. | Homer Plessy couldn't sit first class in a railway cart. Which brought in the 13th Amendment which could not be violated. |
How did the Jim Crow Laws and the Plessy v. Ferguson case affect African Americans in the South? | African Americans made their way up to middle class they were doctors, workers, teachers, and lawyers. They started businesses, aid societies, churches, and built schools. |
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