The American Nation Ch.18 section 4 (The end of Reconstruction)

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Poll Tax Required voters to pay a fee every time they voted
Literacy tests Required voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution
Grandfather Clauses Laws stated that if a voter's father or grandfather had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, the voter didn't have to take the literacy test
Segregation Legal separation of races
Jim Crow laws Trapped Southern blacks in a hopeless situation
Plessy v. Ferguguson Supreme Court declared that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal
"New South" The place that used its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North
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