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Ch 16 Vocabulary

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LoopholesA mistake or ommission in a law that allows it to be circumvented.
Jim Crow LawsStatutes or laws created to enforce segregation.
DisfranchisingIs to deprive of the right to vote.
Literacy TestWas a test you had to pass that required voters to be able to read or understand their state consititution.
SegregationSepreation of the Races.
Poll TaxA tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid in order for a perosn to vote.
Grandfather ClauseA clause that allowed anybody to vote if their ancestors had voted before the year 1867.
SharecroppersLandless farmers who gave a large share of their crops to cover the farm's rent and expenses.
LynchingsExecution without proper court procedures-mobs did lynchings and hanged the persons body on a tree.
Compromise of 1877How reconstruction had ended, their coud be a republican president, if the democrats would pull union troops from the south.



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