Pp. 242-246 Flashcards

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Poll tax

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Tax that must be paid to be able to vote

Effected poor whites and AA’s

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Grandfather clause

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1898, allowed illiterate whites to vote if their father of grandfather had been eligible to vote

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Jim Crow laws

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Slaughterhouse Cases

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Slaughterhouses were making people sick, one company got a monopoly which meant all of the other butchers had to work for them, sued by three African Americans, but they lost because the court ruled that the 13th Amendment only applied to slavery, and the 14th Amendment only applied to federal citizenship, not state. Massively narrowed the application of the 14th Amendment

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Racial etiquette

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AA’s adopt a “quiet life” and have two separate personalities

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Booker T. Washington

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Secretly anti-segregation and anti-lynching

pro education and public schools

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De facto/ De jure segregation

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De jure: segregation mandated by law or government

De facto: segregation that exists even though laws do not require it

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