Jim Crow Era

This was the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation in America

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

Forcing a person to read a paragraph before they were allowed to vote is called a

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• Grandfather Clause

• Lynching

Forcing a person to pay a fee to vote is called a

• Poll tax

• Lynching

• Literacy Test

• Grandfather clause

This Black leader was born in the north and was the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D from Harvard University

• Malcolm X

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

• Martin Luther King Jr.

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson said that whites and blacks could be segregated if spaces were

• old and new

• Even and uneven

• Separate but equal

• Fair and equal

True or False: It was illegal for black and whites to get married during the Jim Crow era?

• True

• False

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• to keep African Americans as sharecroppers

• to keep African Americans as second-class citizens

• to force African Americans to move to the north

• to keep African Americans as slaves

What does disenfranchisement mean?

• To unfairly separate people into groups.

• To take away the right to vote.

• To segregate.

• to grant the right to vote

This civil rights leader said that African Americans should demand their rights now and should be treated equal to whites

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

What was the purpose of the grandfather clause?

• To allow anyone to vote that had a grandfather born in Georgia.
• To allow grandfathers to vote without paying a poll tax.
• To allow a veteran or descendant of a veteran to vote.
• To allow anyone to vote if a father or grandfather had voted before 1867.