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Jim Crow Laws
Terms to Know!
Terror in the South
Inequality in the South
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Jim Crow Laws helped African Americans gain equal rights. True or False?
False.
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What is the definition of segregation?
Segregation is the separation of people, usually based on race or religion.
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What does "KKK" stand for?

Ku Klux Klan

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What was the poll tax?

The poll tax was a fee that citizens had to pay in order to vote in some southern states.

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Were Jim Crow Laws passed before Reconstruction or after Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws were passed AFTER Reconstruction.
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What is definition of discrimination?
Discrimination is the unfair difference in the treatment of people.
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Who were the "KKK"?

A conservative group in the South that was formed after the Civil War that used violence and intimidation to discourage African Americans from voting.

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What was the literacy test?

The literacy test required citizens to read and explain a section of the US Constitution in order to vote.

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After Reconstruction, where were Jim Crow Laws passed? In the North or the South?
Jim Crow Laws were passed in the SOUTH after Reconstruction.
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What is the definition of suffrage? How did Jim Crow Laws affect African American's suffrage?
Suffrage is the right to vote in political elections, and Jim Crow Laws denied African American's suffrage.
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What groups did the KKK target during reconstruction?

African Americans and Republican politicians who wanted to further civil rights.

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What leader in the early Civil Rights movement was removed from a train in 1883 for refusing to give up her seat?

Ida B. Wells

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Which of the following was NOT an effect of Jim Crow Laws? A) Unfair poll taxes and voting tests were established to keep African American men from voting. B) African Americans found it very difficult to vote or hold public office. C) African Americans were forced to use separate, poor-quality facilities and services, such as drinking fountains, restrooms, and restaurants. D) African-American and white children attended same schools.
D) African-American and white children attended same schools.
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What was Reconstruction?
Reconstruction was the period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws to help rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union.
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What tactics did the KKK use in the South to discourage Black voting?

The used violence, kidnapping, threats and destruction of property.

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How did sharecropping perpetuate the cycle of debt for freedmen in the South?

Landowners controlled the terms of leasing land and charged sharecroppers more than they were able to make- keeping them in perpetual debt.

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What was the purpose of Jim Crow Laws?
Jim Crow Laws were established to take away the rights and freedoms gained by African Americans during Reconstruction and reinforce the prejudices held by many Southern white people during this time period.
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What were Jim Crow Laws?
Jim Crow Laws were laws that legally established segregation (separation of the races) and discriminated against African Americans.
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What is lynching?

A lynching is the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process.

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Where did the term Jim Crow originate?

The term "Jim Crow" originated from a minstrel show character named by white entertainer Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice in the 1830s.