Jim Crow Laws

According to the text, what rights were also limited for African Americans?

• petition

• speech

• voting

Homer Plessy, a man of mixed race, __________ the law by riding in a railway car for whites.

• followed

• challenged

• complied

What court case found the "separate but equal" laws to be constitutional?

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Roe vs. Wade

• Plessy vs. Furguson

Jim Crow Laws were created after Black Codes ended.

• True

• False

Jim Crow Laws were created to separate whites and Blacks.

• True

• False

Many whites saw African Americans as 2nd class citizens.

• True

• False

Poll taxes prevented many Black Americans from voting.

• True

• False

Jim Crow Laws

• provided an absolute 10-year halt on Chinese labor immigration

• Laws that enforced segregation in the southern states after Reconstruction

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

Racial Segregation

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

• Forced separation of people of different races in public places

• Laws passed in southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom and rights of African Americans

• to choose to forget differences/past issues and work together towards a common goal

Plessy v. Ferguson

• a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality

• to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit

• Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education; accepted social segregation

• Group formed by W. E. B. DuBois and others in 1909 to pursue the goals of economic, educational, and social equality for African Americans; inspired by the Niagara Movement