Vocabulary chp 7+8 Flashcards
Armistice
An agreement to stop fighting
Black exodus
Migration of African Americans from MS to kanas.
Bourbons
MS politicians who did not expect the changes brought by the civil war.
Charter
A document that creates a new corporation or city or educational institution.
Color line politics
Exclusion of blacks from politics due to their skin color
constitution of 1890
A constitution draft by the bourbons to control legislature disenfranchise poor white and blacks.
Dipping
Dipping animals into a solution to get rid of harmful bacteria.
Crop lien laws
State laws that require share croppers to remain on land until debt was paid off.
Great migration
A time after 1910 when many African America migrated northern states in search of better jobs.
Jim Crow laws
laws the separated blacks and white in public areas.
Protege
A person trained by a more experienced person.
White cappers
White farmers who tried to drive black landowners off of their land and where similar to the kkk