History 2- Segregation and Discrimination Vocab/Questions

Ida B. Wells

Local paper editor from Memphis, TN who was presistent about racial justice

Poll Tax

An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote

Grandfather Clause

If a man failed the literacy test or couldn't afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867

Segregation 

Laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities 

Jim Crow Laws

Segregatin laws which were named after popular old mistrel song

Plessy V. Ferguson

Supreme Court ruling (1896) that he sepration of races in public accomodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amandment, started the separate but equal doctrine

Debt Peonage

This system bound laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to the employer

What groups forced discrimination? 

• African American 

• Asians 

• Mexicans 

• Native Americans 

What is the difference between segregation and de-facto segregation? 

Segregation was the law. While de-facto segregation was not technically a law.

Why were Native Americans pretty much always denied of citizenship?

Natives were denied citizenship because they lived on a reservation as they were being pushed further west. Since they were on reservations living a different culture, they technically were deemed not American.

Was the North a complete safe haven for minority groups?

No, racism was still prevalent in the North.

What is the Plessy V. Ferguson?

Ruled that segregation was not a violation of the 14th Amendment as long as institutions were separate but equal.

How were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois different? 

Booker T. Washington a steady progress in achiving equality (gradual). While W.E.B. Dibops is a fast action toward equality and could only achieve with aggressivness.