Jim Crow Brain Pop

What was the first step in attempting to legalize segregation in the South?

• Winning control of U.S. Congress

• Seceding from the Union

• Disenfranchising African Americans

• Fighting the abolition of slavery

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If the Supreme Court had sided with Homer Plessy:

• The "separate but equal" doctrine might still be legal.

• The North would have adopted Jim Crow laws.

• The Great Migration would have happened sooner.

• Formal segregation likely would have ended sooner.

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Place the following events in order:

A) Brown v. Board of Education

B) Plessy v. Ferguson

C) End of Civil War

D) Jim Crow laws

• C, D, B, A

• B, C, D, A

• D, C, A, B

• C, D, A, B

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What is misleading about describing Jim Crow South as "separate but equal?"

• Everyone ended up sharing the same spaces.

• Divisions among groups were rarely enforced.

• African Americans' facilities were usually inferior.

• These laws applied only to schools.

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The Jim Crow stereotype harmed African Americans by altering:

• laws protecting their voting rights.

• the publics perception of them.

• laws related to public schools.

• their eligibility to serve in the military.

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Which city had the biggest increase in African-American population during Great Migration?

• Tallahassee, FL

• Philadelphia, PA

• Atlanta, GA

• Little Rock, AR

Compared to the Jim Crow South, the North during the same era was:

• less restrictive for African Americans, but still segregated

• completely free of racial discrimination

• fully integrated

• more dangerous for African Americans, with less opportunity

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The NAACP found its greatest successes in the fight against segregation:

• in Congress

• in State Legislatures

• through appeals to the President

• in the courts

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Which best characterizes the Supreme Court's view of Jim Crow laws?

• It always considered them illegal.

• It initially supported them.

• It overturned them immediately.

• It deemed it was not their place to judge their validity.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." What did he mean?

• Only if everyone agrees can equal rights be legally protected.

• Right will prevail over wrong eventually.

• Historically, most people have acted ethically and fairly.

• The fight to end discrimination is a cyclical process.

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