Jim Crow Laws Vocabulary

Discrimination

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

• Forced separation of people of different races in public places

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to choose to forget differences/past issues and work together towards a common goal

Racial Segregation

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

• Forced separation of people of different races in public places

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to choose to forget differences/past issues and work together towards a common goal

N.A.A.C.P.

• Group formed by W. E. B. DuBois and others in 1909 to pursue the goals of economic, educational, and social equality for African Americans; inspired by the Niagara Movement.

• Forced separation of people of different races in public places

• Agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people in the South.

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Chinese Exclusion Act

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

Jim Crow Laws

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

W.E.B. DuBois

• Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Booker T. Washington

• Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Plessy v. Ferguson

• a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• Group formed by W. E. B. DuBois and others in 1909 to pursue the goals of economic, educational, and social equality for African Americans; inspired by the Niagara Movement

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• an African American investigative journalist, educator, and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• Believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

Black Codes are ________________ Reconstruction. Jim Crow Laws are ________________ Reconstruction.

• before; during

• after; before

• during; after

• after; during