Jim Crow Laws

Southern laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed black slaves

abolished slavery

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

the 14th ammendment states that no person should be denied the same protection of law enjoyed by others

Political party that favored harsh punishment of Southern states after civil war

an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation

bring an accusation against

someone from the north comes down to the south to help out

one who is playfully mischievous

Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas/meant African Americans had unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, and government

former slaves

A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote

a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote

a clause that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began; an exceptionto a law based on preexisting circumstances

characterized by tolerance and mercy

kill without legal sanction

the seperation or isolation of a race, class, or group

the judicial precedent established by in the Plessy v Ferguson decision that enabled states to interpret the equal protection provision of the fourteenth amendment as a means of establishing segregation

founded in the 1860s in the south; meant to control newly freed slaves through threats and violence; other targets: Catholics, Jews, immigrants and others thought to be un-American

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

people who rent a plot of land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share of the crop

movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens

black newspaper by Robert S. Abbott that was brought by train to the South • Implored blacks to come North for jobs

a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918

a noisy and violent disorder caused by a group of people

a war between the Allies (Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherl

a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

to make up for