Jim Crow and Voting

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests

• Voting tests

• Government Tests

• Poll tests

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

• Grandfather clause

• Father Clause

• Grandmother Clause

• Santa Clause

Which amendment granted African American males ( no females) the right to vote?

• 15th

• 19th

• 1st

• 14th

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

Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.

• Fraternal Order of Elks

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freemasons

• Illuminati

Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color

• religion

• race (color of the skin)

• economic status

What act did Lyndon Jonson sign?

• Voters Rights Act

• The Voting Protection Act

• The Voting Rights Act

• Voting Protection Act

States imposed _______ tests for people who could vote

The ___ amendment gave African Americans the right to vote

Which statement was most likely a result of the Jim Crow Laws?

• Separate schools were established for white children and black children

• Hiram Revels was the first black person elected to the US Senate

• Anyone born in the United States is a citizen of the country

• All males regardless of race were allowed to vote