Populism and Jim Crow

What doctrine was accepted as a result of this court case decision? 

Separate but equal

Which group would have agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision? 

White southerners

What was a result and lasting legacy of this court case?

Protection of Jim Crow laws

The above opinion is an excerpt from what US Supreme Court case?

Plessy v. Ferguson

The above court case provided support to which of the following?

Legal justification for Jim Crow laws

The above court case was brought to resolve conflicts over the interpretation of the

!4th Amendment

Populism

political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite

Greenbacks

Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver

Inflation

general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money

Deflation

decrease in the general level of prices

Grange

association formed by farmers in the last 1800s to make life better for farmers by sharing information about crops, prices, and supplies

Farmers Alliance

Farmers' organization founded in late 1870s; worked for lower railroad freight rates, lower interest rates, and a change in the governments tight money policy

Peoples Party

Started as Farmer's Alliance, farmers came together and became organized, translated into Populists. Wanted to unite farmers of south/west/poor blacks and whites and industrial/factory workers

Graduated Tax Income

taxation that taxes people at different rates depending on income

Panic of 1893

depression beginning in 1893. Began due to rail road companies over-extending themselves, causing bank failures. Was the worst economic collapse in the history of the country until that point, and, some say, as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Sharecroppers

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

Exodusters

African Americans who moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas

Disenfranchise

deprive of voting rights

White Primary

practice of keeping blacks from voting in the southern states' primaries through arbitrary use of registration requirements and intimidation

Poll Tax

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

Jim Crow Laws

Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights

Grandfather Clause

clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867

Plessy v Ferguson

1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

Lynching

putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

Booker T. Washington

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery."

W.E.B. Du Bois

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

Atlanta Compromise

Argument put forward by Booker T. Washington that African-Americans should not focus on civil rights or social equality but concentrate on economic self-improvement

Great Migration

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