Jim Crow Laws

Which set of rules denied African Americans the same rights as white Americans in the late 1800s and into the 1900s?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Reconstruction Acts

• Suffrage Amendments

• Civil Rights Acts

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

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

Making people pay an annual fee in order to vote.

• Poll tax
• etiquette
• grandfather clause
• literacy

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.

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

Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

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

Jim Crow was...

• President of the United States

• A former Confederate who became governor of TN

• A character played by a white actor in blackface

• A leader of the KKK who had significant political power