Unequal Opportunities for African Americans (CH. 12)

Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 

• Latinos
• African-Americans 
• Native Americans
• Asians

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Segregation in the South was mainly based on 

• hair color
• religion
• race (color of the skin)
• economic status

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What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women
• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

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CCSS.RL.8.9

1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude

• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendent
• 15th Amendment

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Who was born into slavery?

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. DuBois

Who was born free?

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. DuBois

Who believed African-Americans should be granted full rights immediately?

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. DuBois

Who believed African-Americans should earn their rights through hard work?

• Booker T. Washington

• W. E. B. DuBois

What was one of Wells' first acts of defiance against segregation?

• Staging a boycott of local restaurants that refused to serve African Americans

• Refusing to sit in the "Colored Only" section of a train

• Organizing a protest in Washington, D.C.

• Writing letters to Congress and the President complaining about segregation

What is a synonym for the word segregated?

• gathered

• divided

• included

• helped