Jim Crow

Question 1

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
what year?
What did the proclamation do?
Who was it passed by?

Answer 1

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 1863

• Passed by Lincoln
• Purported to change the federal legal status of more then 3 million slaves, essentially freeing them all

Question 2

When and why was the Civil Rights act declared unconstitutional?

Answer 2

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL in 1883

- On account of it not being authorised by the 13th or 14th amendment

Question 3

Describe the Plessy vs Ferguson case

What year?

Answer 3

PLESSY VS FERGUSON 1896

• African America Homer Plessy was challenged for sitting in the white car of East Louisiana Railroad on 7th June 1892
• Plessy challenged the ruling as a result of its violation of the 13th and 14th amendments, which outlawed discrimination
• He lost the case on a 7:1 majority, claiming that segregation did not constitute discrimination. The case perpetuated white supremacy, as well as effectively legalising and facilitating SEPARATE BUT EQUAL

Question 4

Who was JESSIE DANIEL AMES?

• A Texas _______ who fought agains ______
• Founded _____________ in ____
• Also founded _________ in
• A bit area that she challenged was…….

Answer 4

Who was JESSIE DANIEL AMES?

• A Texas SUFFRAGIST who fought against LYNCHING
• Founded Texas League of Women Voters in 1919
• Also founded Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching in 1930
• A big area that she challenged was the rape of white women by African American men

Question 5

PRESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION

Under Hayes

Answer 5

Revoked a number of black rights

Question 6

How did CONGRESS approach segregation?

Answer 6

• Institutionalised racism
• In 1878, congress forbade use of army to protect black voters from intimidation
• From 1901-1931 no black congressmen

Question 7

How did the SUPREME COURT approach segregation?

Answer 7

• Racist whites easily found loopholes
• Whites rarely tried for crimes against blacks
• Segregation and discrimination went unpunished

Question 8

PRESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION

Under Roosevelt

Answer 8

Racism soon became integrated into presidential campaigns, for example, Roosevelts campaign publicly opposed black rights

Question 9

PRESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION

Under Taft

Answer 9

Publicly believed that blacks should not participate in politics

Question 10

PRESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION

Under Woodrow Wilson

Answer 10

• Encouraged passage of discriminatory legislation against interracial marriage
• Pushed for segregation and systematic demotion of black civil servants
• Refused to meet with black leaders or publicly denounce lynching