Jim Crow Laws

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

Which of the following describes Booker T. Washington?

• Born a slave

• Promoted higher education for African Americans

• accepted social segregation

• wrote: Up From Slavery

• believed African Americans should put off their demands for civil rights and instead work for economic growth

Which of the following describes W.E.B. DuBois?

• Born after the Civil War

• Promoted higher education for African Americans

• Promoted vocational educaation for African Americans

• wrote: The Crisis

• believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans

What does this photo illustrate?

• desegregation

• prohibition

• suffrage

• Jim Crow Laws

Which person thought African Americans could gain equality by working harder and longer?

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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

Following the Civil War, the south continued to segregate based on...

• religion

• gender

• race

• age

Which person fought against the injustices suffered by African Americans by publicizing lynchings in newspapers?

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American Indians were not considered US citizens until...

• 1865

• 1924

• 2005

• They are still not considered citizens