Jim Crow UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Jim Crow
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Jim Crow
Jim Crow UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Jim Crow - CORRECT ANSWER- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the
end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted
their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic...
Jim Crow UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Jim Crow - CORRECT ANSWER- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the
end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted
their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such
as the right to vote.
The Redeemers - CORRECT ANSWER- Redeemers were southern Democrats who wanted
to restore white supremacy in the South. They wanted to replace "bayonet rule" with "home
rule."
Poll Tax - CORRECT ANSWER- A fee of several dollars that had to be paid before a person
could vote; a device used in some southern states to prevent African Americans from voting.
Literacy Test - CORRECT ANSWER- A method to deny blacks (and poor whites) right to
vote during the Jim Crow Era by requiring reading or civics test in order to vote. Could be
selectively applied. Prohibited by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Grandfather Clause - CORRECT ANSWER- A device used by southern states to
disenfranchise African Americans. It restricted voting to those whose grandfathers had voted
before 1867.
Wilmington Insurrection - CORRECT ANSWER- Democratic Party white supremacists
illegally seized power and overturned the elected government in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Led by Alfred Waddell, who was defeated in 1878 as the congressional incumbent by Daniel
L. Russell, more than 2000 white men participated in an attack on the black newspaper, Daily
Record, burning down the building. They ran officials and community leaders out of the city,
and killed many blacks in widespread attacks, especially destroying the Brooklyn
neighborhood. After the riot, more than 2,100 blacks left the city permanently, having to
abandon their businesses and properties, turning it from a black-majority to a white-majority
city.
Plessy v. Ferguson - CORRECT ANSWER- 1890. Louisiana passed a law that forced african
americas to sit in a separate train cart. Plessy, a 1/8 african american man, got him self
purposefully arrested by buying a first clase ticket, and planning it with the train company.
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