| A | B |
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| Ida Wells | Newspaper editor that fought to put lynching in the public eye. |
| New South | changes in the south due to human activity and inventions. |
| Booker T. Washington | Founder of the Tuskegee Institute to teach technical skills to blacks. |
| Sharecropping | Worker who cultivates part of another person's land and gives part of the harvest to the landowner. |
| W. E. B. DuBois | Wanted blacks to be educated and have white collar jobs. |
| Tenant Farming | agricultural worker that rents the land to farm. |
| Solid South | Political alliance - Democratic Party post Civil War |
| poll tax | An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote. |
| George Washington Carver | Famous for his work with peanuts, soybeans and cotton. |
| Jim Crow Laws | state and local laws that denied AfricanAmerican free acess to transportaion, restaurants, and other public facilities. |
| Tuskegee Institute | University for blacks to become educated as teacher, and learn useful skills for agriculture and mechanical work. |
| Grandfather clause | Used by southern states to keep blacks from voting, but allowing whites to vote. |
| Turn of the Century Entertainment | Amusement parks, professional sports, bicycling and reading. |
| Literacy test | You had to be able to read to vote. Kept blacks from voting. |
| Debt Peonage | Form of slavery where people worked to pay off their debt - a form of slavery. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | Stopped immigration of Chinese and stopped those here from naturalization process. |
| Booker T. Washington | believed that blacks need to prove their economic value to society. |
| Niagara Movement | Encouraged blacks to seek education to provide their community with leaders. |
| Jim Crow Laws | separated white and black people in theaters, water fountains, railroad cars, school, etc. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | legalized segregration |
| Leisure time activities | bicycling, movies, amusement parks, baseball |
| William Randolph Hearst | Newspaper owner |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | Invented the airplane; tested it at Kitty Hawk |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Newspaper owner competeted with Hearst. |
| Geprge Eastman | developed a camera easy for everyone to use. |
