1) Southern states still denied legal equality to
2) Some states limited blacks to voting only if they could read and have registration officials administer a
3) Blacks were given a harder test than whites, sometimes they were written in a
4) The _____ _______ was put into action when poor whites could not afford to pay the poll tax.
5) 1870's-1890's, the Supreme Court failed to overturn the poll tax or the grandfather clause, even though the laws undermined ________ ______ for the African Americans
6) At the same time blacks were denied voting rights, segregation laws were put into place. Blacks and whites were
7) Plessy vs Ferguson was a court debate involving the separation between the two races. It was debated segregation violated the 14th amendment, however, the court ruled it
8) Blacks could be accused of violating the separate but equal law and be
9) Between 1882 and 1892, more than _____ African Americans were shot, burned, or hanged without trial
10) Lynching peaked in the 1880-1890's, but continued well into the
11) African Americans migrated to the North to find equality and better paying jobs, but when they got there, they found much
12) They were still ______ in the neighborhoods and the work place
13) Competition between blacks an whites became ______. In New York, there was a race riot of 1900.
14) In the west, ______ and _______ inhabited the states.
*Native Americans and Mexicans*
15) Because Mexicans could endure the _____ and ____ climate, they were hired more than any other race
16) Even though they were the main race, they were paid
17) Mexican workers became the biggest labor force in the Southwest desert. They were used for ______ projects
18) Mexicans and African Americans were forced into _______, which banned them into slavery to pay off employer debt.
19) In 1911, the Supreme Court declared involuntary peonage in violation of the
20) By 1800, 100,000 ________ _______ lived in the US. In fear of jobs, whites oushed the Chinese into segregation.
