5.03: Segregation and Discrimination

Ida B. Wells crusaded against ______.

• Racial violence

• Economic policies

• Environmental issues

• Educational reforms

The grandfather clause allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote. True or False?

• True

• False

Plessy v. Ferguson was a court case that ______.

• Upheld the Jim Crow laws

• Abolished slavery

• Promoted civil rights

• Ended segregation

Several southern states wanted to make sure that whites who could not read or pay a poll tax still could vote.

• True

• False

The Literacy test targeted which groups?

• African Americans

• Chinese

• Europeans

• Whites

Who were the targets of the Poll tax?

• Wealthy landowners

• Poor African Americans, poor whites

• Businessmen

• Politicians

Southern states had set up new voting restrictions to keep blacks from voting through (choose three correct answers).

• Poll Taxes

• Literacy Tests

• Intimidation and Violence

• Grandfather Clause

"officials gave each voter a literacy test. They often gave African Americans more difficult tests than they gave to whites. The officials giving the test could pass or fail people as they wished." This is an example of:

• Equal treatment in voting
• Discrimination in voting.

• Universal suffrage for all
• Standardized testing for all voters

Southern states added a grandfather clause to their constitutions. This clause stated that any person could vote if their father or grandfather was qualified to vote before January 1, 1867.

What impact does this date and clause have on African Americans?

• The grandfather clause gave more voting rights to African Americans.

• The grandfather clause allowed all citizens to vote regardless of who there parents or grandparents were.

• According to the grandfather clause, freed slaves did not have the right to vote until the 15th Amendment (1870), making it more difficult for African Americans to vote.

• The grandfather clause had no effect on voting rights.

Separating people on the basis of race became known as

• unification
• integration
• segregation
• discrimination