Cause 1 - Jim Crow Laws

Question 1

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - Point 1 - Beginning of paragraph

Answer 1

A key cause of the Mountgomery Bus Boycott were the Jim Crow Laws

Question 2

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - point 2 - what is Jim Crow

Answer 2

Jim Crow was a fictional character created by a white actor named Thomas from the early 19th century. Thomas’s character was racist and created a stereotypical act of Africans-Americans and their culture.

Question 3

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - Point 4 - What did these laws allow?

Answer 3

The laws allowed racial segregation and discrimination specifically against African Americans.

Question 3

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - point 3 - When were the laws named jim crow laws? What did each state get to do with this law?

Answer 3

A law was named after Jim Crow in the late 19th Century. Each state in the south of America got to make it’s own law (Jim Crow law).

Question 4

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - Point 5 - What are some examples of jim crow laws ?

Answer 4

Some specific Jim crow laws that were enforced in; No coloured barber can serve white people, schools are separate between white’s and blacks, black people cannot marry white people and black people had to sit separately for transport (Alabama).

Question 5

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - point 6 - What is an example from the list of laws ?

Answer 5

For example black people had to come through the back door of buses and sit at the back - as well as giving up their seats for white people

Question 6

Cause 1 Jim Crow Law - point 7 - What were these laws stated as ?

Answer 6

Each of these laws were stated as ‘separate but equal’ but they were in fact separate but not equal.