Context: 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.

Question: What is the one-drop rule?
Answer: defining as black, persons with any known African ancestry

Question: What did some courts call the one-drop rule?
Answer: "the traceable amount rule."

Question: What is a hypodesecnt rule?
Answer: meaning that racially mixed persons were assigned the status of the socially subordinate group

Question: When was the one-drop rule in effect?
Answer: in the early 20th century

Question: What is the one-drop rule?
Answer: black, persons with any known African ancestry.

Question: What is the hypodescent rule?
Answer: racially mixed persons were assigned the status of the socially subordinate group.

Question: Why were laws like the one drop rule enacted?
Answer: In their attempt to ensure white supremacy decades after emancipation

Question: What made the one drop rule stricter than rules in the 19th century?
Answer: it ignored the many mixed families in the state and went against commonly accepted social rules of judging a person by appearance and association.

Question: In the early 1900s, what was did black mean in southern states?
Answer: persons with any known African ancestry

Question: Prior to the 1900s, what was the socially accepted rule for racial interpretation?
Answer: judging a person by appearance and association.

Question: What rule means multiracial people are given status of the socially subordinate group?
Answer: a hypodescent rule

Question: What was the rule used in law in the 1900s called?
Answer: the one-drop rule

Question: What was the rule in the 1800s called?
Answer: the traceable amount rule

Question: What did southern states do to stop white supremacy?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What laws did the northern states create in the early 20th century?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did the one-drop rule define as white?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was not a name that was used for the one-drop rule?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kind of rule did lawyers say the one-drop rule was an example of?
Answer: Unanswerable