Civil Rights Supreme Court cases (some)

Laws common in the south (1877-1950s) that made African Americans use separate schools & public facilities

• separate but equal laws

• Jim Crow laws

• martial laws

• Southern laws

The idea that different public facilities for blacks & whites were constitutional is

• separate but equal

• Jim Crow laws

• separation of powers

• public facilities laws

"No state shall. . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protections of the laws." is the

• necessary & proper clause

• national supremacy clause

• equal protection clause

• expressed powers clause

This amendment ended slavery in 1865

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment, passed in 1868, contains the equal protection clause?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

The most important Constitutional protection that people have against discrimination by state or local governments is the

• general welfare clause

• necessary & proper clause

• dependent clause

• equal protection clause

Even after the 14th amendment (with the equal protection clause) was passed, states continued to pass laws separation African Americans & whites.

• True

• False

Plessy v. Ferguson took place in

• Alabama

• Mississippi

• Louisiana

• Texas

Louisiana had a law that said railroad companies had to have separate passenger cars for white & black passengers.

• True

• False

Plessy won his case in the Supreme Court and there was no more segregation in the U.S.

• True

• False