Para 3: Jim Crow and the turn of the century

Question 1

What do Jim Crow laws reiterate?

Answer 1

That this was a period where the freedoms being granted by the federal government to minority groups are being contested by majority of society

Question 2

What do Jim Crow laws embody?

Answer 2

America’s longstanding tradition to deny their citizens freedom; socially and politically

Question 3

What Supreme Court decision mainly undermines federal legislation and in what year?

Answer 3

The 1883 decision by the Supreme Court to deem the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which makes segregation illegal, invalid

Question 4

What saying embodies the Jim Crow era?

Answer 4

‘Seperate but equal’

Question 5

Supreme Court decisions undermine federal legislation and in 1883 the Supreme Court deems….

Answer 5

the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which makes segregation illegal, invalid, creating the saying which embodies the Jim Crow era, ‘seperate but equal’

Question 6

What did the etiquette accompanying Jim Crow laws do?

Answer 6

Reiterated the falsity of this saying, establishing that the aim was not to demonstrate the equality of the races, but to underline one races as being more deserving of respect, consideration and superior treatment

Question 7

What is another notion of freedom raised in this period?

Answer 7

The suggestion that freedom is the right to individual enterprise and lack of government regulation

Question 8

How does American expansion affect Native Americans?

Answer 8

It conflicts with Native Americans freedoms to continue using their lands as they have traditionally done.

Question 9

What year did Jim Crow laws emerge?

Answer 9

1881