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