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| Booker T. Washington's policy accepting segregation and disenfranchisement for African Americans in exchange for white assistance in education and job training. |
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| A tax imposed on voters as a requirement for voting. Most southern states imposed this after 1900 as a way to take away the voting rights of Black people; the measures also restricted the white vote. |
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| Southern Farmers' Alliance |
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| The largest of several organizations that formed in the post-Reconstruction South to advocate the interests of beleaguered small farmers. |
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| Colored Farmers' Alliance |
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| An organization of southern black farmers formed in Texas in 1866 in response to the Southern Farmers' Alliance, which did not accept black people as members. |
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| The use of legal means to bar individuals or groups from voting. |
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| A system of racial control that separated the races, initially by custom but increasingly by law during and after Reconstruction. |
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| A national organization of farm owners formed after the Civil War. |
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| Execution, usually by a mob, without trial |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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| An interracial organization dedicated to restoring African American political and social rights |
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| A case the US Supreme Court ruled on in 1896 saying that segregation laws that provided "separate but equal" accommodations for blacks were not unconstitutional. |
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| Racism against people of Jewish descent is called ______________. |
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| Rule that required potential voters to demonstrate that their grandfathers had been eligible to vote; used in some southern states after 1890 to limit the black electorate, as most black men's grandfathers had been slaves. |
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| A major 3rd party of the 1890s, also known as the People's party. Formed on the basis of the Southern Farmers' Alliance and other reform organizations, it mounted electoral challenges against the Democrats in the South and the Republicans in the West. |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) |
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| National organization formed after the Civil War dedicated to prohibiting the sale and distribution of alcohol. |
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| A multipurpose structure in a poor neighborhood that offered social welfare, educational, and homemaking services to the poor or immigrants; usually under private auspices and directed by middle-class women. |
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| The one-party (Democratic) political system that dominated the South from the 1890s to the 1950s. |
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| A program promoted by the Southern Farmers' Alliance in response to low cotton prices and tight credit. Farmers would store their crop in a warehouse until prices rose, in the meantime borrowing up to 80% of the value of the stored crops from the government at a low interest rate. |
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| Segregation laws that became widespread in the South during the 1890s, named for a minstrel show character portrayed satirically by white actors in blackface. |
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| Name the top 2 cash crops of the antebellum South. |
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| Per capita income was __________________ than that of the North. |
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True or False Many southern textile mills relocated to the North because wages were cheaper in the North. |
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| During this period (1877-1900) the price of cotton __________________. |
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| After the Civil War and for many years thereafter, Blacks remained very loyal to what Party? |
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| What Black man co-founded the NAACP? |
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| To eliminate the need for skilled labor in (an industry), especially by the introduction of high technology. |
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