Ch. 7 Vocabulary Flashcards
1
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction> impacted Southern life into the 1950+1960
2
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Poll tax
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required voters to pay a tax to vote> African Americans & some whites were to poor to afford such fees
3
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Literacy Test
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required a voters to pass a reading & writing test> African Americans had been exploited economically & denied an education- disqualified
4
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Grandfather Clause
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allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866> allowed poor & illiterate whites but not blacks to vote
5
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Las Gorras Blancas
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(The White Cape)- group of Mexican Americans that attempted to protect their lads> targeted property of large ranch owners- cut barber wires, burned houses
