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Key Terms
Compromise of 1877
A ______ political deal that removed federal troops from the South, leading to the end of Reconstruction.
Jim Crow laws
A ______ system of racial oppression, encompassing segregation, disenfranchisement, and economic subjugation, enforced by violence.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
A Supreme Court case that ruled '___ but ____________' facilities were constitutional, rubber-stamping segregation as legal.
Disenfranchisement
The act of actively stripping Black men of their voting rights through methods like poll taxes, literacy tests, and ______ clauses.
Sharecropping
An economic system trapping African Americans in a cycle of ______ by renting land and supplies from white landowners, often leading to perpetual debt.
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