History of Jim Crow

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that

• states may not secede from the Union

• all western territories should be open to slavery

• segregation was constitutional

• slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners

Which statement best summarizes the beliefs of Booker T. Washington?

• The best solution for African Americans was to return to Africa

• Social equality for African Americans would be easier to achieve than legal rights

• The way to dissolve the barriers of segregation and bring about an end to Jim Crow laws was by active, violent resistance

• The most immediate means for African Americans to achieve equality was to expand their opportunities for vocational education

Poll taxes and grandfather clauses were devices used to

• deny African Americans the right to vote

• extend suffrage to women and 18-year-old citizens

• raise money for political campaigns

• prevent immigrants from becoming citizens

This African-American demanded full political, civil, and social rights to his people, so he started the NAACP

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

Who say this "An education where I learn to use my hands will help me get a job and support my family"

• Booker T. Washington

• Robert E. Lee

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Abraham Lincoln

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women

• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights

• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans

• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

adopted in 1870, that prohibits the denial of voting rights to people because of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• I Don't Know

a secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in Southern states after the Civil War.

• Racism

• Discrimination

• Prejudice

• Ku Klux Klan

In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the “______________” was established.

• “Separate but Equal Doctrine”

• "Reverse Discrimination"

• "Affirmative Action"

• "Quota System"

 The south was for slavery because

• this is wrong. 

• they liked slaves

• slavery was profitable 

• they wanted to be difficult