The Jim Crow Era

"Jim Crow" can best be described as which of these?

• a set of laws, the era defined by those laws reflected

• social customs against southern state laws

• an activist who fought to end segregation in the South after Reconstruction

• a series of marriage laws and customs

Which of these describes the end of Reconstruction?

• Reconstruction paused but began again once Jim Crow settled over the South.

• Reconstruction ended once the federal government had protected civil rights for black people in the South.

• Reconstruction efforts continued until the end of the Jim Crow era in the 1950s.

• Reconstruction ended quickly and before the federal government had fully protected the civil rights of black people in the South.

Which of these is true of segregation in the South after Reconstruction?

• Segregation in the South ended with Reconstruction.

• Only schools were segregated.

• Segregation was enforced by white society but never written into law.

• Segregation was written into law and enforced by white society.

What was the Great Migration?

• a time when many black people left the segregated South and moved to the North

• a time when many black people left northern US cities for European cities

• a time when many white people left cities for the suburbs

• a time when many Europeans immigrated to the US

True or false: Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy, was lynched in 1955.

• true

• false

Which of these people co-founded the NAACP?

• Booker T. Washington

• Thurgood Marshall

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Homer Plessy

Which of these events occurred first?

• Homer Plessy sat in a train car for white people only.

• Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

• the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education

• the Jim Crow era came to an end

Which of these people argued in front of the Supreme Court that separate is by nature not equal?

• Booker T. Washington

• Thurgood Marshall

• Homer Plessy

• W.E.B. Du Bois

Which of these best describes the end of Jim Crow?

• Jim Crow ended with Reconstruction.

• Jim Crow lingered as a mindset long after dedicated activists and organizations worked to end legal segregation.

• Jim Crow disappeared overnight as soon as segregation was deemed unconstitutional.

• Jim Crow completely ended with the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.

_____ reversed the policy established by _____.

• The NAACP, the Tuskegee Institute

• Brown v. Board of Education, Plessy v. Ferguson

• Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education

• Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield