generate questions: In their attempt to ensure white supremacy decades after emancipation, in the early 20th century, most southern states created laws based on the one-drop rule, defining as black, persons with any known African ancestry. This was a stricter interpretation than what had prevailed in the 19th century; it ignored the many mixed families in the state and went against commonly accepted social rules of judging a person by appearance and association. Some courts called it "the traceable amount rule." Anthropologists called it an example of a hypodescent rule, meaning that racially mixed persons were assigned the status of the socially subordinate group.
What is the one-drop rule? {sep_token} What did some courts call the one-drop rule? {sep_token} What is a hypodesecnt rule? {sep_token} When was the one-drop rule in effect? {sep_token} What is the one-drop rule? {sep_token} What is the hypodescent rule? {sep_token} Why were laws like the one drop rule enacted? {sep_token} What made the one drop rule stricter than rules in the 19th century? {sep_token} In the early 1900s, what was did black mean in southern states? {sep_token} Prior to the 1900s, what was the socially accepted rule for racial interpretation? {sep_token} What rule means multiracial people are given status of the socially subordinate group? {sep_token} What was the rule used in law in the 1900s called? {sep_token} What was the rule in the 1800s called?