Jim Crow Icivics

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

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

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color

• religion

• race (color of the skin)

• economic status

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women

• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights

• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans

• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.

• Integration

• Conflagration

• Confederation

• Segregation

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

• Grandfather clause

• Father Clause

• Grandmother Clause

• Santa Clause

Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?

• Eastern Shore

• South

• North

How did the ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson relate to the 14th amendment?

• It said that separate but equal was unfair

• It created laws that separated blacks and whites.

• It created laws that desegregated blacks and whites forever

• It created laws to unify America