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Segregation Flashcards

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The system ensures that African Americans were treated how?

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Like second-class citizens

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What laws required segregation in the southern states?

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Jim Crow Laws

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T or F

Jim Crow was not a person!

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True

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What were the Jim Crow laws based off of?

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19th century minstrel song called “Jump Jim Crow” that stereotyped African Americans

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What was the “Jim Crow” system for?

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It came to personify the system of government and made racial oppression and segregation in the United States OKAY

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In the early 1900s what dominated almost every aspect of southern daily life?

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Jim Crow Laws

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What did the Jim Crow Laws require?

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blacks and whites to be separated

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Where were blacks and whites separated?

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Schools, parks, hospitals, transportation systems

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Blacks were not allowed to use the same ______________ or ______________ or sit in the same sections of _______________.

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drinking fountains; public restrooms; theaters

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T or F

Facilities designed for blacks were almost always superior.

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False, inferior

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What did many whites living in the South fear?

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That black votes would you unite with poor white farmers

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Some whites even feared African Americans would gain _____________ power.

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political

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Many southern states during the 1890s implemented tactics to deny what?

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the vote to blacks

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Most African Americans could not meet these requirements for voting.

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True

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What was a poll tax?

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A special fee that must be paid before a person was permitted to vote

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What were some requirements that restricted many from voting?

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Poll taxes

Literacy tests

17
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What was a literacy test?

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Had to prove ability to read and write minimum standards of knowledge

18
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Did the literacy tests restriction only African Americans?

A

NO, it backfired and effected many whites too

19
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Literacy tests also prevented many poor ____________ from voting.

A

Whites

20
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What were the Grandfather clauses?

A

Tried to protect whites’ voting rights

21
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What were the requirements for the grandfather clauses?

A

If they had voted perviously

Ancestors (grandfathers) that had already voted

22
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How did the grandfather clauses keep African Americans from voting?

A

blacks did not have the right to vote

no way grandfathers would have been able to vote

23
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What was the Plessy vs. Ferguson?

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Supreme Court’s “separate but equal” rule

24
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1896- Homer Plessy argued his right to “____________________” violated the 14th Amendment.

A

Equal protection of the laws

25
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T or F

Louisiana law required separate seating for blacks on public railroads.

A

True

26
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What did the Supreme Court rule out?

A

The 14th Amendment does not guarantee social equality; only political and civil

27
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Facilities for blacks had to be ___________ to rights, but were hard to enforce.

A

equal

28
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Customs or “etiquette” –

A

Used to ensure that African Americans were aware of their “inferiority” in southern society

29
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What did white men call black men?

A

“Boy” or by their first name

30
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What did blacks have to call whites?

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“Sir” or “mister”

31
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Blacks had to remove their ____________ or step off the curb to let whites pass.

A

Hats

32
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Why were even small breeches sometimes resulted in big trouble for African Americans?

A

They could lose their job or be assaulted

33
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What was the worst violence?

A

Lynching

34
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What was lynching?

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The murder of an “accused” person by a mob without a lawful trial

35
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How many people were lynched between 1882-1892?

A

1200

36
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What other things happened to these victims?

A

sometimes mutilated or riddled with bullets

37
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Those who carried out these actions were rarely ______________.

A

Punished

38
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What is segregation?

A

The separation of people by race

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