| A | B |
|---|
| Segregation | public and social separation of the races |
| Reactionary | One who strongly opposes progress. |
| Workers' Comprensation | A government insurance program for those killed or injured on the job. |
| Jetty | A wall of woven willows weighed with stone and held by heavy timbers that increased the flow of the river and removed river sediment. |
| Populist | A member of the peoples' party |
| Disfranchise | To take the right to vote away from a person or a group. |
| Covict- Lease - System | A method to earn money for the state by renting convicts to provide businessess; the convicts built bridges, levees, roadsm, and railroads and worked and lived under terrible conditions. |
| Seperatee - But- Equal - Concept | the concept resulting from the U.S supreme court ruling in plessy v.s Ferguson that permitted states to pass laws that made it legal to have seperate public facilities for whites and blacks. |
| Bourbons | the name given to those reedemer democrats who held political power in lousiana in the late 1800's they supported states' rights and white supremacy and did not see the need for change. |
| Louisiana Lottery Company | A private company that operated a lottery in louisiana during the late 1800's the lottery company held a great deal of political power because of the contributations it made to politicians. |
| Grand-Father Clause | A clause in the 1898 state constitution ; to register to vote, excused a person from proving he owned property if he had been able to vote on January 1, 1867 the clause virtually disfranchised blacks. |
| Progressive Movement | A series of movements whose members believe that government was best equipped to correct the ills of society progressives wanted government to fight poverty and improve the living conditions of citizens to break up large corporations and regulated business. |
| Fusion Movement | The name given to the cooperation of the late 1090's in an attemp to defeat the Democrats. |
| Farmers' Union | A farmer organization started in 1888 the union urged members to work together to keep their costs down. |
| Strike | A labor union tactic where workers refuse to work, usally over some grievance until their demands are heard and addressed. |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws that restricted the freedom of african american and required seperate- but equal public facilities for whites and blacks. |
| 1868 | Lousiana Constitution (Military Reconstruction). |
| 1879 | Lousiana Constutution revised (LA Lottery Charter). |
| 1891 | Formation of Populist Party. |
| 1896 | Plessy vs. Ferguson. |
| 1898 | Louisiana state constitution rewritten. |
