Vocabulary
Background
Supreme court
Riddles
100

What is Segregation?

When different races are separated.

100

What is Plessy's first name?

Homer

100

Why was Homer Plessy arrested in the first place?

For violating the Jim Crow laws by not moving from the White section to the black section a train

100

What is seen in the middle of March and April that can't be seen at the beginning or end of either Month

The letter "R"

200

What is Justice?

A judge of a supreme court, of a state or a country.

200

Where was Plessy born?

New Orleans, Louisiana.

200

What jail was Plessy sent to?

Local jail in New Orleans

200

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

Bookkeeper

300

What are the Jim crow laws?

A set of racial segregation laws.

300

What was Homer's job at a young age?

Shoemaker

300

What breaks on the water but never on land?

A wave

400

What does writ of error mean?

A common law that directs a bad court to hear the case again because of the contemplating that an error of law occurred.

400

What year was Plessy was born?

1862

400

I turn around once, What is out will not get in.I turn around again, what is in will not get out. What am I?

A key

500

You cannot keep me until you have given me? what am I?

Your word