Jim Crow and the Lost Cause

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to Jim Crow laws, the Lost Cause narrative, and associated historical movements.

Jim Crow

State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.

The Lost Cause

A narrative that portrays the Confederate cause as just and noble, downplaying slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

Fusion Movements

Coalitions of Black voters and disenfranchised white farmers and workers aimed to oppose the Democratic control in the South.

Grandfather clauses

Laws that allowed individuals to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfathers had the right to vote before the Civil War.

Plessy v. Ferguson

A 1896 Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the 'separate but equal' doctrine.

United Daughters of the Confederacy

An organization founded in 1894 by women to promote the memory of Confederate soldiers and the Lost Cause narrative.

Second KKK

A resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1910s and 1920s that expanded its focus to include immigration and Catholicism along with anti-Black sentiments.

“The Faithful Slave” monument

A monument dedicated to enslaved individuals who were depicted as loyal servants during the Civil War and reflective of the Lost Cause ideology.

Mississippi Constitution of 1890

A constitution that instituted literacy tests and poll taxes, effectively disenfranchising Black voters and many poor whites.

Lynchings

Extrajudicial killings, often by mob violence, primarily targeting African Americans during the Jim Crow era.