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Jim Crow Laws

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 5hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were Jim Crow Laws?

a)

laws that aided in the education of African Americans

b)

laws of segregation against African Americans

c)

laws that helped African Americans get better jobs

d)

laws that helped African Americans vote

2.

Who made people aware of the suffering of African Americans under Jim Crow laws?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Homer Plessy

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

John Ferguson

3.

Which of the following describes Booker T. Washington?

a)

Born a slave

b)

Promoted higher education for African Americans

c)

accepted social segregation

d)

wrote: Up From Slavery

e)

believed African Americans should put off their demands for civil rights and instead work for economic growth

4.

Which of the following describes W.E.B. DuBois?

a)

Born after the Civil War

b)

Promoted higher education for African Americans

c)

Promoted vocational educaation for African Americans

d)

wrote: The Crisis

e)

believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans

5.

What does this photo illustrate?

a)

desegregation

b)

prohibition

c)

suffrage

d)

Jim Crow Laws

6.

Which person thought African Americans could gain equality by working harder and longer?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Homer Plessy

7.

What court decision upheld Jim Crow Laws declaring "separate but equal"?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Loving v. Virginia

d)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

8.

Following the Civil War, the south continued to segregate based on...

a)

religion

b)

gender

c)

race

d)

age

9.

Which person fought against the injustices suffered by African Americans by publicizing lynchings in newspapers?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Homer Plessy

10.

American Indians were not considered US citizens until...

a)

1865

b)

1924

c)

2005

d)

They are still not considered citizens

11.

Jim Crow Laws went directly against two Constitutional Amendments. Which two?

a)

14th

b)

15th

c)

16th

d)

17th

e)

18th

12.

If someone is prevented from voting they are...

a)

disfranchised

b)

unfortunate

c)

disbarred

d)

promoted

13.

Which people formed/founded the NAACP?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Homer Plessy

14.

Which person called on African American doctors, lawyers, and teachers to become leaders of their people?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Homer Plessy

15.

How did Jim Crow Laws affect African Americans in terms of GOVERNMENT?

a)

created separate water fountains

b)

didn't allow white and black children to attend the same school

c)

required seprate by equal restrooms for whites and blacks

d)

imposed impossible voting regulations so African Americans couldn't vote

16.

Who created the Tuskegee Institute and believed in vocational education for African Americans?

a)
b)
c)
d)
17.

What created a 10-year halt on all Chinese labor immigration?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Labor Immigration Act

c)

Chinese Worker Act

d)

Invitation to Work Act

18.

Jim Crow Laws made it legal to ______ against _______.

a)

discriminate

b)

promote

c)

women

d)

African Americans

19.

Who was the first African American to graduate with a PhD from Harvard?

a)

Fredrick Douglass

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Ida B. Wells