Jim Crow and Plessy vs. Ferguson

Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

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

• Redskins vs Giants
• Aylor vs Byrd
• Brown vs Board of Education
• Plessy vs Ferguson

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1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

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

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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

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What is segregation?

• Allowing groups of people to work together

• Keeping groups of people separate by race

• Giving all people equal rights

What were poll taxes?

• Money given to the former slaves to vote

• Money given to politicians for their vote

• Money paid to be able to own property

• Money paid to the poll worker before blacks could vote

Why did many African Americans leave South Carolina during the Great Migration?

• They had no land.

• Violence of the KKK and better opportunities.

• They wanted electricity.

• They did not like the governor of SC.

What name was given to the movement of African Americans from South Carolina to the north?

• Great Migration

• Great Depression

• World War I

• Great Travel

Why were there more jobs available for African Americans in the North?

• There was more farmland up north.

• There were fewer white Americans in the north.

• There wasn't any racism in the Noth.

• There were more factories that needed to hire workers.

Jim Crow laws included

• literacy tests, poll taxes and a grandfather clause
• grandfather clause, physical exam, court cases
• english requirements, photo id, citizenship
• all blacks in voting, women could vote, food tax