VS 8b Segregation and Jim Crow Laws

What group occupied the South during Reconstruction to make sure laws were followed?

• the president

• Confederate soldiers

• Northern troops

• Jim Crow

Check all the ways African Americans began to have power in Virginia government.

• They were elected as president.

• They were elected to local and state offices.

• They organized community groups.

• They could vote.

White citizens wanted things to return to the way they had been. Slowly the freedoms and rights were _______.

• increased.

• stayed the same.

• taken away.

What was the name of the laws that established segregation in the South?

• George Mason Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Stonewall Laws

• No Rights Laws

Segregation means...

• no rights

• separation of people by race or religion

• different treatment of people

• time when the South was rebuilding

Select all the ways the Jim Crow Laws made it almost impossible for African Americans to vote.

• had to pay a poll tax

• had to vote on a different day

• had to prove they had a job

• had to pass a literacy test

African Americans having to use separate poor quality restaurants or restrooms is an example of ________.

• Reconstruction

• poll tax

• segregation

• Freedman's Bureau

_________ is the unfair difference in the treatment of people.

• Discrimination

• Poll tax

• Segregation

• Sharecropping

Choose all the ways African Americans began to fight against the Jim Crow Laws.

• wrote letters

• used separate bathrooms

• held meetings

• organized protests

African Americans began to train to become doctors, lawyers, and teachers so they could __________.

• push out white citizens

• better serve their community

• take over government

• better protest