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- 5. This was a Supreme Court case that narrowed the meaning and intent of the 14th Amendment.
- 9. Who believed that former slaves and their descendants should gain acceptance through hard work.
- 10. Was a slang term for segregation in the South after the Civil War.
- 14. This was a law the required a person (African American) to pay a tax to vote.
- 15. Homer Plessy was considered what percentage black, and therefore under Louisiana State law had to ride in the Black only cars.
- 16. Was the era after the Civil War that lasted a decade.
- 17. This was a Jim Crow era law that required that a person had to pass a written test in order to vote.
- 18. These were clauses that allowed White voters to get around the Jim Crow era voting laws.
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- 1. Supreme Court Case that established the doctrine of Separate but Equal.
- 2. Was a law passed by the federal government in 1964, that outlawed Jim Crow and discrimination in the US.
- 3. Most whites in the South after the Civil War belonged to which party?
- 4. Laws that were created by former Confederate states to segregate society.
- 6. Policy in the South and elsewhere in the US that was intended to keep the races apart when possible.
- 7. Who was an early civil rights leader who believed African Americans Should demand equality now.
- 8. How many military districts was the South divided into after the Civil War.
- 9. Supreme Court case in the 1950s that overturned the policy of separate but Equal.
- 11. US President that in the late 1940s integrated the Military.
- 12. Challegned Louisianna state law on segregation on railroad cars.
- 13. Was a secret organization after the Civil War that used terror and violence to intimidate former slaves and their descendants.
