Civil Rights Warmups

Match the following

• a.segregation

• forced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment

• Jim Crow Laws

• refusal to comply with certain laws as a peaceful form of protest

• a.Civil disobedience

• local and state-level laws that legalized racial segregation many (mostly southern) states in the U.S.

• a.Civil Rights Movement

• struggle between African Americans and local & federal institutions to end legalized segregation, racial discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the U.S.

What did poll taxes and literacy tests in the New

South Era have in common?

• They were both used to abolish Jim Crow laws.

• They were both used to disenfranchise African

  Americans.

• They were both used to implement the Plessy v.

  Ferguson decision.

• They were both used to prevent racial violence

  by African Americans.

What were Jim Crow laws?

• Laws in which everyone was equal

• state and local laws that mandated racial segregation in public spaces

• state and local laws that allowed for all people to be together

• Laws in which people have to stay 6 feet apart at all times.

What is disenfranchisement?

• the state of not being franchised

• the state of being given equal opportunities

• the state of being deprived of a privilege

Which of the following BEST describes the

reason literacy tests were given to some voters in

Georgia between 1877 and 1918?

• The state wished to disenfranchise African

  Americans.

• The state wished to make sure voters

  understood the ballot.

• The state wished to prevent Democratic

  politicians from committing election fraud.

• The state wished to comply with the separate-

  but-equal ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson.

What happened to Homer Plessy that resulted in a well known Supreme Court Ruling? Select all that apply....

• Homer Plessy got on a "Whites only" train car.

• He fell asleep on a train

• Plessy was asked to leave the train car.

• He willingly left

• He refused to leave the car, and was arrested.

What was the Plessy Vs. Ferguson ruling?

• Plessy was allowed to go wherever he wanted when he wanted.

• The Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal"

• It's ok for states to keep races separate as long as the facilities are equal.

• Separate but equal was ruled illegal

Public facilities were the exact same for whites and blacks-True or False

• True

• False

Which of the following amendments BEST relates

to disenfranchisement?

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 16

To ensure segregation would continue, many

southern states passed laws to keep blacks and

whites separated. Which of the following BEST

represents an outcome of the Supreme Court

Case, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

• segregation was officially declared

  unconstitutional

• only public buildings would have to desegregate

• rights were still denied to black citizens because

  of separate but equal

• facilities for public use were integrated by state

  militia