Unit 2 Vocab Quiz

Question 1

New South

Answer 1

The economy of the South after the civil war diversify and have lumber mills and saw mills. ECONOMY

Question 2

Tenant Farmers

Answer 2

Farmers who had no land but some money. Rented land from the landowner and farmed by themselves. Kept all the crop

Question 3

Sharecropper

Answer 3

Since African Americans needed jobs and there wasn’t enough land they went to landowners. They were given land and tools. They kept parts of their harvest but not enough

Question 4

Ida Wells Barnett

Answer 4

African American journalist that wrote about lynching and civil rights

Question 5

KKK

Answer 5

White Supremacist group that killed many African Americans and Civil Right supporters

Question 6

Compromise of 1877

Answer 6

Southern States accept Hayes if the army is taken out of the South. Starts Southern Rule

Question 7

solid south

Answer 7

How all old Confederate States vote democratic and stay united

Question 8

Segregation

Answer 8

The general idea of separation by race

Question 9

W.E.B Du Bois

Answer 9

Called for marches and boycotss. Went to HARVARD

Question 10

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 10

The laws made for segregation

Question 11

Booker T. Washington

Answer 11

TUSKEEGEE UNIVERTSITY

Question 12

NAACP

Answer 12

Help African Americans through courts and laws

Question 13

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 13

US Supreme court decision that states segregation is okay

Question 14

Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests

Answer 14

Ways to stop blacks from voting

Question 15

Grandfather clause

Answer 15

If your grandfather couldn’t vote you couldn’t vote