1. New South

2. What was the New South?
New South- Term describing Post Reconstruction South
Jim Crow Laws- limited African American rights

3. Southern African Americans
Blacks were elected congressmen, mayors and state legislators
Black schools, and Facilities were built

4. Disenfranchised Disenfranchised- having your right of suffrage revoked
Literacy test- pass a reading test
Poll tax- pay a tax to vote
Grandfather clause- allowed whites to avoid poll tax and literacy test

5. Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan- secret organization in the southern U.S.
aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of African Americans
Lynching and violent acts

6. Ida B. Wells Newspaper editor Wrote The Red Record
-detailed the number of lynching's by KKK in South

7. Plessy V. Ferguson Supreme Court Case
Ruled that African Americans “Separate but equal,” did not violate the 14th Amendment
Upheld the “Jim Crow” laws of the era

9. Exodusters
Exodusters-African Americans began moving West in search of jobs to escape poverty and discrimination in the South