u.s. ii -- chapter 6 section 5
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Poll tax receipts from Navarre County, Texas Vocabulary 1. Explain the significance of: poll tax, segregation, Jim Crow laws, lynching, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois poll tax a tax on all citizens registering to vote In 1890, Mississippi required a $2 poll tax to vote, more than most African Americans could afford Poll tax receipts from Navarre County, TexasTRANSCRIPT
U.S. II -- Chapter 6 Section 5
Section Review Questions - Page 253 #1-5 Poll tax receipts from
Navarre County, Texas
Vocabulary 1. Explain the significance of: poll tax, segregation,
Jim Crow laws, lynching, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.
DuBois poll tax a tax on all citizens registering to vote In 1890,
Mississippi required a $2 poll tax to vote, more than most African
Americans could afford Poll tax receipts from Navarre County, Texas
Vocabulary segregation separation of the races Jim Crow laws
1. Explain the significance of: segregation, Jim Crow laws,
lynching, Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois
segregation separation of the races Jim Crow laws laws that
enforced discrimination (probably from popular song, Jump Jim Crow)
Vocabulary lynching hangings without proper court proceedings
1. Explain the significance of: lynching, Ida B. Wells, Booker T.
Washington, W.E.B. DuBois lynching hangings without proper court
proceedings Ida B. Wells fiery young African American woman from
Tennessee, launched a fearless crusade against lynching in 1892
Vocabulary Booker T. Washington
1. Explain the significance of: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington most famous African American of the late 19th
century, influential educator, proposed that African Americans
concentrate on economic rather than political goals W.E.B. Du Bois
leader of a new generation of African American activists; saw no
reason to give up civil rights, even temporarily 5 5 Main Ideas 2.
Describing Under what kind of conditions did many African Americans
in the South live in after Reconstruction? Conditions were little
better than slavery because African Americans owned no property and
gained little or no economic freedom as sharecroppers 3.
Identifying How did Southern states restrict African American
voting in the 1890s? Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause
Response to Discrimination
Main Ideas 4. Organizing Use a graphic organizer similar to the one
below to list the responses of some prominent African Americans to
racial discrimination. African American Response to Discrimination
Ida B. Wells Wrote against lynching Booker T. Washington Urged
African Americans to prepare educationally and vocationally for
equality W.E.B. Du Bois Campaigned for civil and voting rights and
helped found the Niagara Movement Critical Thinking 5. Big Ideas
How did Booker T. Washingtons answer to racial discrimination
differ from that of W.E.B. Du Bois? Washington concentrated on
achieving economic goals rather than legal and political ones. Du
Bois was concerned with protecting legal and voting rights.