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HIGHER USA- ISSUE 2 (Background and Legal Impediments)

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What date did the American Civil War occur?

a)

1800-1880

b)

1902-1910

c)

1861-1865

d)

1860-1865

2.

What was the name of the organisation of Southern states who fought for slavery to be maintained?

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

3.

What was the name of the document that ended slavery in 1863?

a)

Separate but Equal

b)

Jim Crow

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

14th Amendment

4.

What was passed in 1865 which ended slavery?

a)

The Emancipation Proclamation

b)

The 13th Amendment

c)

The 15th Ammendment

d)

The Jim Crow Laws

5.

What was the name of the laws that segregated white and black Americans?

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Plessy v's Ferguson

d)

14th Ammendment

6.

What idea does this picture show?

a)

Emancipation

b)

14th Amendment

c)

Confederates

d)

Separate but Equal

7.

Who is this?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Homer Plessy

c)

Judge Ferguson

d)

Hiram Rhodes Revels

8.

When was the case of Plessy v's Ferguson?

a)

1865

b)

1856

c)

1896

d)

1900

9.

What state did Homer Plessy refuse to stand on a train in?

a)

Louisiana

b)

Mississippi

c)

Alabama

d)

South Carolina

10.

What did the case of Plessy vs Ferguson do?

a)

Made the Jim Crow laws legal/ constitutional

b)

Started segregation

c)

Created equal civil rights for black and white Americans

d)

Made the Jim crow laws unconstitutional