USA Issue 2: Obstacles to civil rights for black people to 1941

The end of which war prompted the 13th Amendment?

• WW1

• The American Civil War

• The American War of Independence

• WW2

What was the 13th Amendment about?

• Equal voting rights

• Abolition of slavery

• Women's Enfranchisement

• Removal of property qualifications for voting

The 14th and 15th Amendments made it ... to be denied the vote or discriminated against because of the colour of a person's skin.

• legal

• optional

• normal

• illegal

Despite these Amendments, black Americans still faced hostility, bigotry and ...

• equality

• suffrage

• persecution

• jobs

Slavery existed in the Southern states until ...

• 1850

• 1855

• 1860

• 1865

Politically, socially and economically black Americans were ...

• on top

• the best

• first-class citizens

• second-class citizens

Legal impediments refer to ... (choose TWO)

• Supreme Court Rulings

• Federal Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Presidential decrees

When did Southern states begin passing laws that were designed to discriminate against black Americans?

• In the 1960s

• At the end of the Civil War

• After WW1

• Before slavery

These laws which segregated black and white Americans across the south were called ...

• James Crow Laws

• Jimmy Crow Laws

• Jim Bird Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

In which places were blacks and whites segregated?

• Schools and public transport

• Swimming pools

• Restaurants and toilets

• Graveyards

• All of these places