Jim Crow Laws

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 of society were affected by Jim Crow Laws?

• School

• Restaurant

• Prison

• All of the above

What law passed in 1964 helped put an end to Jim Crow Laws?

• The Civil Rights Act

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The New Deal

• The Thirteenth amendment

What was it called when people were charged a fee to vote?

• Voter registration

• Poll tax

• Voter subscription

• literacy test.

What rule allowed white people who couldn't pass the reading test to vote?

• Grandfather clause

• Literacy test.

• Reading law

• Old man law

True or False: Not all Jim Crow laws were in the South.

• True

• False

What negative term was used to describe African Americans as a result of the skit performed by Rice?

• the Civil War

• Thomas Dartmouth Rice

• Jim Crow

What was the period of time following the Civil War when the "separate but equal" laws were put into place?

• Reconstruction

• Civil War

• Revolutionary

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 might have given African Americans equal treatment under the law, but Jim Crow laws kept things separate by ___________ African Americans and whites.

• separating

• segregating

• maltreating

According to the text, which option below shows examples of public facilities that were segregated?

• schools, public transportation, restaurants, and even water fountains

• court houses, colleges, parks, and libraries

• schools, cars, libraries, colleges, and water fountains