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It was an important tool in ending segregation.
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It reinforced segregation and discrimination.
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It could work, if paired with more aggressive tactics.
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It was the cause of violence against African Americans.
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What effect did Plessy v. Ferguson have on Jim Crow laws?

A
It weakened the laws in southern states.
B
It weakened the laws in northern states.
C
It strengthened the laws throughout the United States.
D
It invalidated the laws throughout the United States.
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W. E. B. Du Bois believed in

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supporting Washington’s accommodation approach.
B
actively working to achieve civil rights for all.
C
actively working for separate but equal rights.
D
supporting the abolitionist spirit movement.
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Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the "separate but equal" doctrine?

A
Jim Crow laws were created to undermine this doctrine because they required racial integration for public facilities.
B
Jim Crow laws were created to protest this doctrine because they required racial segregation for some public facilities.
C
Jim Crow laws were designed to support this doctrine because they required equal public facilities for African Americans and whites.
D
Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine because they required racial segregation for public facilities.
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In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect

A
voting rights.
B
civil rights.
C
political rights.
D
social rights.
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who

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helped found the NAACP.
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helped found the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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supported the accommodationist approach.
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supported the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling.
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As a result of the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling,

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it took decades for segregation to be declared unconstitutional.
B
it took a few years before segregation was declared unconstitutional.
C
fewer facilities became segregated.
D
railcars on trains were desegregated.
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In upholding Louisiana’s Separate Car Act, the Supreme Court claimed that

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segregation was not the same as discrimination.
B
the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to Southern states.
C
discrimination was necessary in order to maintain public order.
D
segregation was unconstitutional based on the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Read the quotation from Dr. Oswald P. Bronson recalling his childhood under Jim Crow. Even on our way to school some days, men would come by and throw oranges at us, sometimes rock perhaps. We [also] were very much aware of police brutality in that city at that time. We were conscious of the Ku Klux Klan riding around the town to keep everybody in check.In this quotation, Dr. Bronson is describing

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intimidation, scare tactics, and violence perpetrated by both the police and the Ku Klux Klan against African American citizens.
B
how the police protected African American citizens from intimidation, scare tactics, and violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan.
C
conflicts between the police and the Ku Klux Klan that caused violence in the city he lived in.
D
how residents protected each other from the Ku Klux Klan and the police in the city he lived in.
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Jim Crow laws were designed to

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prevent African Americans from gaining equality.
B
support the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
C
uphold the Fourteenth Amendment.
D
help Africans Americans gain equality

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