Unit 10: Checkpoint #2 (Jim Crow Laws)

What was the period after the Civil War when the federal government “rebuilt” the former Confederate states and readmitted them to the Union called?

• Reconstruction

• Imperialism

• Reindustrialization

• McCarthyism

Which amendment ended slavery?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment said every citizen had equal protection under the law?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

Which amendment said no citizen should be denied the right to vote based on race?

• 12th

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

What were laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities called?

• Plessy Ferguson Laws

• Brown Education Laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Disenfranchisement Laws

Select all examples of Jim Crow Laws

• Refusing to give women the right to vote

• Separate bathrooms based on gender

• Separate areas on public transportation based on race

• Separate schools based on race

• Bans on interracial marriage

What does disenfranchisement mean?

• Not having the right to vote

• Not having the right to education

• Not having the right to business ownership

• Not having the right to ride certain buses

What did Plessy v Ferguson rule?

• Outlawed separate but "equal" facilities

• Citizens could attend schools only located by their homes, they were not allowed to transfer

• No citizen can be denied the right to vote due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

• Separate but equal was allowed because did NOT violate the 14th amendment

What did Brown v The Board of Education rule?

• Separate but equal only allowed to be based in education

• Separate but equal was unconstitutional & not allowed especially with education

• All marriages between white person & person of color was outlawed

• The teaching of evolution is outlawed in the state of Tennessee

What is the significance of Brown v the Board of Education?

• Affirms Plessy v Ferguson --> separate but equal CONTINUES

• Provides all-black schools with increase funding & supplies only

• Prohibits the Little Rock Nine students from entering the all-white school

• Overturns Plessy v Ferguson --> says no more separate but equal