Some examples from this set of practice questions
1.
In which amendment is the equal protection clause located?
Answer: The 14th amendment
2.
What is the equal protection clause?
Answer: A clause that prohibits states from denying equal protection under the law, used as the basis for civil rights and anti-discrimination laws
3.
What did black codes do?
Answer: Restricted employment, wages, and fair treatment of black americans
4.
What were jim crow laws?
Answer: State and local laws that legalized segregation
5.
Describe a poll tax.
Answer: A fee that must be paid in order to vote
6.
Describe a literacy test.
Answer: A (usually rigged) test must have been passed in order to vote
7.
What did the grandfather clause state?
Answer: If you or your ancestors could vote in 1867, you could vote even if you can\'t pay the poll tax or pass the literacy test
8.
What was a white primary?
Answer: A democratic party primary in which only white people could vote
9.
Which Supreme Court case declared the \"separate but equal\" principle constitutional, providing the legal basis for jim crow laws?
Answer: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
10.
Define de jure segregation.
Answer: Segregation under the law
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