The New South

Question 1

Sharecropping

Answer 1

• ex-slaves often do not leave their plantation
• ex-slaves go from being a slave, to a “worker” on the same property
• plantation owners became landlords

Question 2

black codes

Answer 2

• laws to segregate society
• voting; schools; curfews
• local laws - each area would be different
• trying to get around the 14th and 15th Amendments
• won’t change until the 1950’s

Question 3

plessy v. ferguson

Answer 3

• railroad segregation - is that legal??
• supreme court
• “separate but equal is legal”
• segregation is upheld by the Supreme Court
• challenged 13th amendment

Question 4

restricting african-american rights

Answer 4

• literacy tests - must read & write to vote
• poll tax - must pay a fee in order to vote
• grandfather clause - if your grandfather voted, so can you ( no ex-slaves’ grandfathers ever voted; only impacted poor whites)

Question 5

1876 election

Answer 5

• election is a tie (Hayes v. Tilden)
• house of representatives would not let Tilden (D) win
• deal was made. Hayes (R) wins. South gets railroads they so badly need

Question 6

remember this…

Answer 6

plessy v. Ferguson said “separate but equal is legal.” question is, who is making sure everything is “equal”?

Question 7

systematic, state-level codes passed to aid segregation in the South were known as

Answer 7

jim crows laws