Part 2: Rise of Jim Crow

Question 1

How did Jim Crow reestablish white supremacy in the South after reconstruction ended?

Answer 1

• Segregation (Laws that forced black and white people to use separate public spaces, keeping black people inferior conditions)

• Violence and intimidation (Lynchings, beatings, threats to black Americans to keep them from challenging white control).

• Economic Oppression (Many black workers being forced into low paying jobs to keep them in poor dependent on white landowners).

• Voting restrictions (Poll taxes, literacy tests, and other unfair rules).

Question 2

Forms of Oppression (Exploitation, Economic)

Answer 2

• Sharecropping life

• Convict Leasing

• Poll Taxes

Question 3

Forms of Oppression ( Marginalization, Social)

Answer 3

• Black & White peoples could not share the same jail cell

• Natural selection ideology

• Limited higher black education

Question 4

Forms of oppression (Powerless, Political)

Answer 4

• Lacking black representation in gov.

• Literacy tests

• Disenfranchisement

Question 5

Forms of oppression (Cultural, Imperialism)

Answer 5

• Code of racial etiquette

• Racial hierarchy of Jim Crow

• Agriculture & industrial education

Question 6

Forms of oppression (Violence)

Answer 6

• Lynchings

• Vagrancy laws

• Violent white supremacist groups

• Police negligence

• Arson

Question 7

How do multiple forms of oppression work together to enforce and maintain white supremacy?

Answer 7

They work together to keep power and privilege with white people while limiting opportunities and rights for others.

Question 8

Explain the arguments for and against the constitutionality of segregation, as written by the suorememe court justices in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.

Answer 8

• Majority Opinion argued segregation was constitutional under the “separate but equal” doctrine. Court claimed segregation were inferior, but was simply a social custom that the government. couldn’t regulate.

• Dissenting opinion argued the constitution is “colorblind”, meaning the law should treat all people equally, regardless of race.

Question 10

Vagrancy laws

Answer 10

Made it illegal for people to unemployed or homeless, Southern states used these laws to target freed black Americans.

Question 11

Convict leasing