US HIstory Ch 13 Sec 2
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- sharecropping
- farmers worked on land owned by someone else in return for supplies and a small share of the crop
- Crop-lien system
- sharecroppers had to promise their crops to merchants in exchange for supplies on credit
- Poll Taxes
- taxes you had to pay to vote
- Literacy Tests
-
used to prevent who couldn't
read from voting - segregation
- separation of people by race
- Jim Crow Laws
- enforced segregation in the south
- Plessy vs Ferguson
- est. separate but equal doctrine for public facilities
- Madame CJ Walker
- a African American entrepreneur who was one of the 1st womaen in the US to become a millionaire
- Brooker T Washington
- believed African Americans should concentrate on achieving economic independence
- Ida B Wells
- civil rights activist, journalist and teacher