Vocab Chapter 9
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- Department Store
- Large retail eestablishment that carries a wide variety of goods and sells in large quanities
- Poll Tax
- a special fee that must be paid before a person was permitted to vote
- Niagra Movement
- group of discrimination and recognition of human brotherhood
- Yellow Journalism
- news coverage with a reference to the yellow ink used in a popular comic strip of the era
- Segregation
- This system ensured that African Americans were treated as second-class citizens
- Rural free delivery (RFD)
- begining in 1896, free delivery offered by the US Postal Office to farm families in rural areas
- Jim Crow
- Statues, begining in the 1890s, that required segregation of public services by race
- Ragtime
- music that originated among black musicians in the South and Midwest in the 1880s
- Vaudeville
- a type of inexpensive variety show that first appeared in the 1870s
- Assimilation
- the process by which people of one culture become part of another culture
- Grandfather Clauses
- These laws exempted men from certain voting restrictions if they had already voted, or if they had ancestors (grandfathers) who had voted prior to blacks being granted suffrage
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- 1896 Sepreme Court decision that held that segregatoin was legal as long as the separte facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided for whites
- Lynching
- Murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial
- Assimilation
- the process by which people of one culture become part of another culture
- Literacy
- ability to read and write
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregatoin and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain civil rights for African Americans
- Mail-Order Catalog
- Printed material advertising a wide range of goods that can be purchased by mail
- Philanthropist
- people who give donations to worthy causes