chapter 5

Question 1

Suffrage

Answer 1

Right to vote

Question 2

Black Codes

Answer 2

laws passed shortly after the Civil War designed to keep recently liberates slaves in conditions of servitude. Stopped by a Constitutional Amendment.

Question 3

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 3

institutionalized racism that systematically denied rights to poor blacks (primarily in the South) while still avoiding a direct violation of the 15th Amendment.

Question 4

Poll Taxes

Answer 4

Some states required people to pay a poll tax in order to “go to the polls” and vote. This systematically disenfranchised poor black voters.

Question 5

De jure

Answer 5

segregation mandated by law

• Whites only public restrooms, water fountains
• Bus seating, diners, restrictive housing contracts

Question 6

De facto

Answer 6

segregation by choice and individual selection (think of a middle school lunch room and the gender divide)

Question 7

Civil Disobedience

Answer 7

a strategy of both non-compliance and yet non-violence. For example, break unjust laws by walking into a segregated café, but don’t hurt anyone.