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Segregation and Oppression

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who/what is Jim Crow?

a)

Laws that separate black and white people

b)

A character in a dance played by Thomas Dartmouth Rice

c)

A derogatory name towards black people

d)

An influential senator

2.

Coloured people could marry white people

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Where did the phrase "separate but equal" originate?

a)

The Plessy v. Ferguson case

b)

A respected university professor

c)

A well-liked congressman

4.

What is the Brown opinion?

a)

The opinion of the Supreme Court that "separate but equal" facilities are unequal

b)

The opinion that brown people are lesser than white people

c)

The opinion that brown people should not marry between races

5.

How were black people prevented from voting?

a)

Poll taxes

b)

Literacy tests

c)

Fraud

d)

Intimidation

e)

Legal measures

6.

The Fifteenth Amendment says: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

a)

True

b)

False

7.

When was the Voting Rights Act instated?

a)

1965

b)

1964

c)

1954

d)

1973

8.

When did the Supreme Court outlaw segregation in education?

a)

1943

b)

1967

c)

1954

d)

1965