The Road to Civil Rights

Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

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

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Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South

• Racial Rules
• Lincoln Laws
• Black Codes 
• Jim Crow

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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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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

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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

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One of the most common forms of violence was___. Illegal execution of a person by a mob.

• Lynching
• Arrest
• Tar and Feathering
• Pillaring

Any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of former slaves after the Civil War.

• Black Codes
• Rude Laws
• Common Law
• Racial Statutes

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

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests