Jim Crow Laws Anticipation Guide

Life improved greatly for African Americans soon after the Civil War.

• True

• False

African Americans were declared U.S. citizens after the Civil War.

• True

• False

Many whites saw African Americans as 2nd class citizens.

• True

• False

Black codes were created to make whites and Blacks equal

• True

• False

Black codes were abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1866

• True

• False

Jim Crow Laws were created after Black Codes ended.

• True

• False

Jim Crow Laws were created to separate whites and Blacks.

• True

• False

The United States Army was not desegregated until 1964.

• True

• False

Poll taxes prevented many Black Americans from voting.

• True

• False

The KKK was a vigilante group that lynched many African Americans.

• True

• False