Plessy v Ferguson 1/18

The 14th amendment was to gave all U.S. citizens what?

• equal protection under the law

• citizenship by birth on U.S. land

• both of these

Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge

• the Brown v. Board of Education case

• Segregation and the Jim Crow laws

• Reconstruction

• equal pay for equal work

What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

• The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

• The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

What famous phrase came out of the Plessy case?

• "Separate but equal"

• "Give me liberty or give me death."

• "By any means necessary"

Black code laws were created to help African American during Reconstruction (T/F)

• False

• True

A violent, terroristic white supremacist group was the

• Ku Klux Klan

• Jim Crows

• Black Codes

The 15th Amendment granted:

• citizenship to everyone, regardless of race

• equal rights to blacks

• voting rights to black males

• voting rights to women

"Black Codes" and "Jim Crow Laws" were state laws generally designed to segregate and keep control of:

• former slaves

• Democrats in the South

• former Confederate military officers

• Exodusters

Jim Crow Laws were an attempt by Southern whites to achieve segregation using the principle:

• separate but equal

• due process of law

• equal protection

• integration

Jim Crow laws

• Segregated blacks and whites

• Killed minorities

• Resulted in slavery

• Were ended after the Civil War