Flashcards
The American Nation Ch.18 section 4 (The end of Reconstruction)
Cards in this deck (7)
- 1Poll TaxRequired voters to pay a fee every time they voted
- 2Literacy testsRequired voters to read and explain a section of the Constitution
- 3Grandfather ClausesLaws 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
- 4SegregationLegal separation of races
- 5Jim Crow lawsTrapped Southern blacks in a hopeless situation
- 6Plessy v. FergugusonSupreme Court declared that segregation was legal so long as facilities for blacks and whites were equal
- 7"New South"The place that used its vast natural resources to build up its own industry instead of depending on the North