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WorksheetsAPUSH 6.4 New South and Plessy v. Ferguson
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 9mins
True or False: The “Separate Car Act” required “separate but equal” train cars for Blacks and Whites.
True
False
The 14th amendment was to give all U.S. citizens what?
right to vote
right to bear arms
equal protection under the law
right to free speech
These were any type of law that discriminated against people based on race.
14th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
federal laws
state laws
Homer Plessy wanted to try to get the courts to say that Jim Crow laws were _____________________________.
separate but equal
legal
constitutional (in accordance with the 14th Amendment)
unconstitutional (a violation of the 14th Amendment)
The U.S. Supreme Court saw the "Separate but Equal" law as constitutional?
Yes
No
One problem with the idea of "separate but equal" was that the separate facilities for black people were almost never truly _______________.
national
federal
equal
unequal
The Plessy decision of "Separate but Equal" was not overturned until what famous case decided by the Supreme Court?
Worcester v. Georgia
Marbury v. Madison
Dred Scott
Brown v. Board of Education
What did the Separate Car Act do?
Said that all people should own their own car
Forced blacks and whites to sit in same train car
Segregated trains in Louisiana
The "New South" movement pushed Georgia's economy to depend more heavily on what?
industry, railroads & manufacturing
farming & railroads
manufacturing, shipping
The New South era refers to the time period
between World War I and World War II
after Reconstruction and before the turn of the century
after the Civil War and before Reconstruction
Who is credited with coining the term, "New South"?
Thomas Watson
Henry W. Grady
Booker T. Washington
