iCivics: Pushing Towards Civil Rights Jim Crow Laws

Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Integration
• Conflagration
• Confederation
• Segregation

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

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• Keep public facilities cleaner

• keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

• keep the races pure

• keep African-Americans from voting

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

Which amendment granted African American males ( no females) the right to vote?

• 15th

• 19th

• 1st

• 14th

Which word means "The Right To Vote"

• Democracy

• Elections

• Suffrage

• Rights

Jim Crow was

• President of the United States
• the first slave freed after the civil war

• a white actor who put charcoal on his face
• The first african american slave

Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?

• Eastern Shore

• South

• North

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

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