AfricanAmericanCh7FlashCards

Question 1

Suffrage

Answer 1

the right to vote, especially in a political election.

Question 2

Black laws

Answer 2

1. White northerners limited black freedom by enacting black laws, by rarely allowing black
   men to vote, by advocating segregated houses, schools, transportation, and by limiting
   employment opportunities.
2. The Fugitive Slave Law caused fear in African Americans that escaped slavery because it
   allowed the slave to be captured and sent back to their master as long as they are in the
   United States.

Question 3

Disfranchisement

Answer 3

to deprive .of the right to vote. Black men kept from voting based on property ownership

Question 4

Segregation

Answer 4

1. Northern hotels, taverns, and resorts would not allow black people to enter unless they
   were a servant of a white guest.
2. African American had to sit in segregated sections when in churches and theaters.
3. Ohio did not allow black people the use of state-supported poorhouses and insane
   asylums.
4. African Americans could only ride in stagecoaches ifthere were no white passengers.
   They were also not allowed in streetcars and they could not rent cabins on steamboats.
5. All African Americans were subject to segregation regardless ofthe wealth.
6. Most northern cities had segregated neighborhoods for black people. Although a few
   wealthy black people lived in white neighborhoods.
7. Many white people believed that having black neighbors led to lower property value.
8. The conditions in the segregated neighborhoods were dreadful and it led to disease, infant
   mortality, alcoholism, and crime.

Question 5

Free papers

Answer 5

If a free black did not possess free papers, they could be thrown back into slavery at any
given time

Question 6

Tenant farmers

Answer 6

Sharecropping was common throughout the South well into the twentieth century, and required the work of entire families.