Jim Crow laws- segregation laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson- separate but equal (Brown vs. Board of Ed. of Topeka, KS ended segregation)
Poll Tax- designed to keep poor people from voting
Literary Test- test to see if blacks could read and write, which most blacks couldn't
Grandfather Clause- if your grandfather could vote before a certain date you could vote which meant poor white people could vote but not poor black people because they just got the right to vote
political machines is a organization of people whose goal is to get as many political people they want in the positions
Thomas Nast helped take down Tweed through his political cartoons
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