Question

Beginning in the late 1800s, “Jim Crow laws” began to be passed by a number of states in the U.S., most notably in the states in the
region. The were laws that discriminated against African Americans, denying them many rights enjoyed by other citizens. They became more commonplace following the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1896 case
. This allowed people to be
by race as long as the facilities were deemed to be
facilities.
A

southern

eastern

southwestern

S
Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education

McCulloch v. Maryland
v

segregated
integrated
prosecuted
"separate but equal"
"clear and present"

"God-given"

Answer 1

Answers:
- southern
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- segregated
- "separate but equal"

(Plessy v. Ferguson [1896] upheld racial segregation so long as facilities were purportedly "separate but equal.")