Progressive Era - Jim Crow and Segregation

What were Jim Crow laws?

• laws meant to enforce racial segregation and keep people of color in a lower social position

• Laws proposed and passed by congressman Jim Crow of Alabama

• Laws that made black and white Americans equal

• A set of social expectations that white people had to follow

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Tests given to African Americans who wanted to register to vote-

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?

• William Lloyd Douglas
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• George Washington     
• Booker T. Washington

WEB DuBois

• founded the NAACP

• worked in a salt mine at age 9

• was born in Tennessee

• taught job skills to African-Americans

According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?

• Learning skills and trades              
• Holding protests and strikes
• Attending meetings and elections
• Working longer and harder

What were Jim Crow Laws?

• laws that aided in the education of African Americans

• laws of segregation against African Americans

• laws that helped African Americans get better jobs

• laws that helped African Americans vote

Who made people aware of the suffering of African Americans under Jim Crow laws?

• Robert E. Lee

• Homer Plessy

• Ida B. Wells

• John Ferguson

What does this photo illustrate?

• desegregation

• prohibition

• suffrage

• Jim Crow Laws

What court decision upheld Jim Crow Laws declaring "separate but equal"?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Loving v. Virginia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford