Jim Crow and Segregation: Voting

Jim Crow and Segregation:

​VOTING

​What is "Suffrage"?

Suffrage is the right to vote. in public, political elections.

Think of it like this: ​It basically means that you are exercising your power to end suffering in your community.

​Obstacles to Voting: The Poll Tax

​Imagine that you are finally old enough to vote in your first election. But, do you have enough money to vote?

During the Jim Crow Era, citizens in Southern states had to pay a fee to vote in a national election. This fee was called a poll tax.

It took until January 23, 1964 to change it when the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution.

​Obstacles to Voting: Literacy Tests

​Even if you could afford to pay your poll taxes, if you were a minority in the South, you had to take a test to prove you should be able to vote.

​The tests were designed to be so difficult that even people who wrote the tests weren't sure what the right answers were.

​By making them impossible to pass, Southern states could deny people the right to vote.

​The Grandfather Clause

​The Grandfather Clause was a legal loophole passed by seven Southern states during Reconstruction to deny suffrage to African Americans. It meant that, if you had the right to vote prior to 1867, or were the descendant of such a person, you would be exempt from educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.

​This helped deny voting rights to 70-80% of African American communities in these states.

Multiple Choice

Which word means "The Right To Vote"

• Democracy

• Elections

• Suffrage

• Rights

Multiple Choice

Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

Multiple Choice

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

Multiple Choice

This African-American demanded full political, civil, and social rights to his people, so he started the NAACP

• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass

Multiple Choice

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women
• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

Multiple Choice

Which African American leader wanted vocational education?

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

Plessy v. Ferguson said it was ok to 

• discriminate against African Americans
• create separate but equal public settings
• create poorer quality settings for African Americans

Multiple Choice

In what year was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• 1882

• 1877

• 1865

• 1896

Multiple Choice

1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendent
• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

1868, makes all persons born in the United States—including former slaves— citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws. 

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

1870, grates voting rights to all men regardless of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Multiple Choice

a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War. 

• Racism
• Discrimination
• Prejudice 
• Ku Klux Klan

Multiple Choice

Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Integration
• Conflagration
• Confederation
• Segregation

Multiple Choice

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Multiple Choice

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• Keep public facilities cleaner

• keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

• keep the races pure

• keep African-Americans from voting

Multiple Choice

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

Multiple Choice

Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?

• Eastern Shore

• South

• North

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois is most accurate?

• They differed as to the best way that African Americans could effectively achieve equality

• Both demanded programs that would provide for immediate social equality

• Both believed that vocational training would provide the most important kind of education for African Americans

• Neither wanted the Federal Government to play a major role in protecting the civil rights of African Americans

Multiple Choice

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests

Multiple Choice

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

• Grandfather clause

• Father Clause

• Grandmother Clause

• Santa Clause