Jim Crow Laws

1. What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws?

e. None of the above

• a. Segregation

• b. To keep black people and white people separate

• c. To keep black people from voting

• d. All of the above

• e. None of the above

2. What was it called when people were charged a fee to vote?

• a. Voter registration

• b. Poll tax

• c. Voter subscription

• d. Literacy test

• e. Vote price

3. What rule allowed white people who couldn't pass the reading test to vote?

• a. Grandfather clause

• b. Literacy Act

• c. Reading law

• d. Pre-war clause

• e. Old man law

4. What was it called when millions of African-Americans moved north to get away from the Jim Crow laws?

• a. Underground Railroad

• b. Big Move

• c. Great Migration

• d. Freedom March

• e. Giant Exodus

5. What areas of society were affected by Jim Crow Laws?

• a. Schools

• b. Prisons

• c. Restaurants

• d. Transportation

• e. All of the above

6. What laws in the South tried to maintain something like slavery even after the Civil War?

• a. New Deal

• b. Black codes

• c. Intolerable Acts

• d. African Acts

• e. Slave codes

7. What Supreme Court ruling said that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

• a. Marbury v. Madison

• b. Dred Scott v. Sandford

• c. Brown v. Board of Education

• d. Plessy v. Ferguson

• e. Miranda v. Arizona

8. What president ordered that the army be desegregated?

• a. Abraham Lincoln

• b. Franklin Roosevelt

• c. John F. Kennedy

• d. Harry Truman

• e. Woodrow Wilson

9. True or False: Not all Jim Crow laws were in the South.

• a. TRUE

• b. FALSE

10. What law passed in 1964 helped put an end to Jim Crow Laws?

• a. Civil Rights Act

• b. Thirteenth Amendment

• c. Emancipation Proclamation

• d. New Deal

• e. Social Security Act