Jim Crow Laws

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.... this sign represents what laws in the South

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

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What time period did the Jim Crow laws exist?

• 1776 to 1930

• 1877 to 1960s

• 1877 to 2020

• 1800s to 2000s

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Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

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Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

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

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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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laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. 

• Racist
• Prejudice
• Discrimination
• Jim Crow Laws

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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

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What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

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Jim Crow was

• President of the United States

• an important activist

• a white actor who put charcoal on his face and was portrayed as a "dim-witted" black slave

• a bird

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What rules came before Jim Crow Laws?

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