Question 1

What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws?

Accepted Answer

to segregate society by race

Question 2

What was it called when people were charged a fee to vote?

Accepted Answer

poll tax

Question 3

What rule allowed white people who couldn't pass the reading test to vote?

Accepted Answer

Grandfather clause

Question 4

What was it called when millions of African-Americans moved north to get away from the Jim Crow laws?

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 5

What area of society were affected by Jim Crow Laws

Accepted Answer

Transportation

Question 6

What laws in the South tried to maintain something like slavery even after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Black Codes

Question 7

What Supreme Court ruling said that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 8

What president ordered that the army be desegregated?

Accepted Answer

Harry Truman

Question 9

True or False: Not all Jim Crow laws were in the South.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

What law passed in 1964 helped put an end to Jim Crow Laws?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act

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