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Chapter 4-4: The new South

Key Words/ Terms:
 * Sharecropping: system where farmers worked parcel of land in return for a share of crop, cabin, seed, tools, and a mule
 * Crop-lien system: to obtain needed supplies each year, they had to promise their crops to local merchants who sold them goods on credit
 * Literacy Tests: tests that barred those who couldn't read from voting
 * Poll Taxes: fixed taxes imposed on every voter
 * Segregation: state legislatures initiated a series of laws designed to enforce this
 * Jim Crow laws: provisions
 * Plessy v. Ferguson: a lawsuit brought in 1896 after AA's homer Plessy was denied a seat in a first- class railway car.

Key People:
 * Madame C.J Walker: a leading AA entrepeneur, was one of the first women in the U.S to become a millionaire
 * Booker T. Washington: believed that AA's should concentrate on achieving economic independence, which he saw as the key to political and social equality

Key Events: Changing Economies in the South The Rise of Jim Crow African American Life Responses to the Jim Crow Era
 * Sharecropping: system where farmers worked parcel of land in return for a share of crop, cabin, seed, tools, and a mule
 * Crop-lien system: to obtain needed supplies each year, they had to promise their crops to local merchants who sold them goods on credit
 * Henry W. Grady was the editor of Atlanta Constitution. Believed that one-crop agriculture kept the south in poverty and economically dependent on the North
 * Literacy Tests: tests that barred those who couldn't read from voting
 * Poll Taxes: fixed taxes imposed on every voter
 * Segregation: state legislatures initiated a series of laws designed to enforce this
 * Jim Crow laws: provisions
 * Plessy v. Ferguson: a lawsuit brought in 1896 after AA's homer Plessy was denied a seat in a first- class railway car
 * Madame C.J Walker: a leading AA entrepreneur, was one of the first women in the U.S to become a millionaire
 * Booker T. Washington: believed that AA's should concentrate on achieving economic independence, which he saw as the key to political and social equality