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American tobacco company

-Created by James Buchanan "Buck" Duke

-Controlled about 90% of cigarette production

Textile Industry

produced cloth and clothing from cotton and other raw materials

Crop-lien system

-Three districts- Farm owners, sharecroppers, and tenants.

-Kept poor farmers dependent on landowners because they could not pay off their debt.

Sharecropper

-A poor farmer who used another person's land and gave part of the crops as payment.

Mississippi plan

-Series of amendments passed to prevent African Americans from voting

Parts of the Mississippi plan

-Residence requirement- two years in the state, one year in a local election district.

-Had to pay all taxes on time, poll tax.

-Read and understand the U.S constitution

Grandfather clause

-allowed people to vote if their grandfather was eligible to vote on January 1, 1867.

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

-Said it was okay to keep African Americans and whites to be segregated.

-"Separate but equal"

Jim Crow

-Laws designed to enforce segregation of African Americans from whites.

-Usually done in a violent/aggressive manner.

-Separate schools, bathrooms, etc..

Wilmington insurrection

-First and only municipal government had been overthrown.

-White supremacists attacked African American homes and businesses.

-Biracial government was forced to resign at gunpoint.