Starter quiz
- ______ is a form of discrimination or prejudice based on someone's race or ethnicity.
- 'Racism' ✓
- Which President of the USA was responsible for implementing the New Deal?
- Franklin D. Roosevelt ✓
- Calvin Coolidge
- Herbert Hoover
- Harry S. Truman
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- Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into the order in which they happened.
- 1⇔The Great Depression
- 2⇔The New Deal
- 3⇔World War Two
- 4⇔The Red Scare
- Which statements are correct?
- Roosevelt promised that his New Deal would deliver relief, recovery and reform. ✓
- All Americans were lifted out of poverty by the New Deal.
- Many Americans were lifted out of poverty by the New Deal. ✓
- The New Deal did not end unequal treatment of African Americans in the USA. ✓
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- Which statements are correct?
- African Americans did not gain new opportunities for employment during the war.
- African Americans gained new opportunities for employment during the war. ✓
- African Americans faced discrimination in the military and on the home front. ✓
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- Match the following words with their definitions.
- Civil rights⇔protections that ensure equal treatment and prevent discrimination ✓
- Inequality⇔disparity in the distribution of resources or opportunities ✓
- Abolition⇔the movement to permanently end the practice of enslaving humans ✓
Exit quiz
- In which year did Abraham Lincoln issue the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery across the USA?
- 1776
- 1861
- 1865 ✓
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- Match the words with their definitions.
- Discrimination⇔unjust treatment based on a particular characteristic or trait ✓
- Segregation⇔when different groups of people are forcefully kept separate or apart ✓
- Lynch⇔to kill someone for an offence without a trial ✓
- Complete the sentence. ______ were the rules that enforced segregation, named after a stereotype of lazy, black American people.
- 'The Jim Crow laws' ✓
- Which of these statements best describes where segregation existed in the USA?
- Only the southern states of the USA
- Only the northern states of the USA
- All of the states of the USA
- Every southern state and some of the northern states of the USA ✓
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- Which statements are correct?
- The Jim Crow laws segregated all public facilities, such as schools. ✓
- Black Americans had the same quality of life as their White counterparts.
- Black Americans were forced to use poorer quality facilities under Jim Crow. ✓
- The 15th Amendment aimed to ensure that all Black Americans were able to vote. ✓
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- Which of the statements best describes the outcome of Plessy v Ferguson in 1896?
- Segregation was legal so long as it was ‘separate but equal’. ✓
- Segregation was not legal.
- Segregation was legal so long as it was ‘separate but not equal’.
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Key learning points
- In 1865, slavery came to an end, but racism would not disappear overnight.
- Jim Crow laws had enforced segregation across southern states in the US, but also some northern states.
- Jim Crows laws were introduced to limit the freedoms introduced in the Reconstruction era.
- Discrimination and segregation increased in the late 1800s, and worsened after the Plessy v Ferguson verdict (1896)
Common misconception
Jim Crow laws only impacted southern states in the US.
Although Jim Crow laws were implemented in every southern state, there was still some segregation in northern states.
Keywords
Discrimination - discrimination is unjust treatment based on a particular characteristic or physical trait
Segregation - when different groups of people are forcefully kept separate or apart it is called segregation
Jim crow laws - Jim Crow laws were a set of laws that enforced segregation in the USA, named after 'Jim Crow' - a stereotype of lazy, black American people
Lynched - when someone is lynched they are killed for an offence without a trial, usually by an armed group
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