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Jim Crow in Louisiana

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
a)
Integration
b)
Conflagration
c)
Confederation
d)
Segregation
2.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

3.

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

a)

Keep public facilities cleaner

b)

keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

c)

keep the races pure

d)

keep African-Americans from voting

4.

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

a)

Literacy Tests

b)

Voting tests

c)

Government Tests

d)

Poll tests

5.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Housing

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

6.

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

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Father Clause

c)

Grandmother Clause

d)

Santa Clause

7.

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

a)

15th

b)

19th

c)

1st

d)

14th

8.

Which word means "The Right To Vote"

a)

Democracy

b)

Elections

c)

Suffrage

d)

Rights

9.

Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?

a)

Eastern Shore

b)

South

c)

North

10.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on 
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
11.
What best describes Jim Crow laws?
a)
better opportunities for women
b)
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
c)
discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
d)
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
12.
Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.
a)
Fraternal Order of Elks
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freemasons
d)
Illuminati
13.

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

a)

Poll tax

b)

Lynching

c)

Literacy Test

d)

Grandfather clause

14.

A political murder of an African American to intimidate called a

a)

Grandfather Clause

b)

Literacy Test

c)

Poll Tax

d)

Lynching

15.

what is shown in the photo

a)

A poll tax

b)

A grandfather clause

c)

A lynching

d)

A literacy test

16.
Whites Only Water Fountain .... this sign represents what laws in the South
a)
Racial Rules
b)
Lincoln Laws
c)
Black Codes 
d)
Jim Crow
17.
What year did Reconstruction end
a)
1876
b)
1877
c)
1887
d)
1977
18.
laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities. 
a)
Racist
b)
Prejudice
c)
Discrimination
d)
Jim Crow
19.

A system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop...

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Segregation

c)

Border States

d)

Jim Crow's Law

20.

Which of the following is TRUE about sharecropping

a)

Sharecropping favored the freeedmen.

b)

Many freedmen were able to buy new homes through sharecropping

c)

Most sharecroppers remained in debt or in a cycle of poverty

d)

Many state governments offered loan for sharecropping farmers.

21.

What replaced slavery in the south after the Civil War?

a)

Tenant Farming

b)

Sharecropping

c)

Slavery

22.

As sharecroppers former slaves were given a place to live, seeds, and equipment in order produce crops. The land owner received a ________ of all crops grown

a)

share or portion

b)

ownership

c)

debt

d)

none of the above

23.
Most slaves became what after the Civil War
a)
Sharecroppers
b)
Lawyers 
c)
Welders
24.

Why couldn't sharecroppers leave?

a)

No horse

b)

They could if they wanted

c)

could be arrested for owing debt to landowner

d)

Had to stay and farm ...and bring in the harvest

25.
Most slaves became what after the Civil War
a)
Sharecroppers
b)
Lawyers 
c)
Welders