AP African American Studies / Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom

3.5 Disenfranchisement and Jim Crow Laws

3 practice questions

Notes

Southern states blocked Black voting with poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses and white primaries. Jim Crow laws enforced segregation; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) upheld "separate but equal."

Practice

Grandfather clauses:

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896):

A literacy test was used to:

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