Jim crow laws were designed to
a)prevent african americans from gaining equality.
b)support the plessy v. ferguson decision.
c)uphold the fourteenth amendment.
d) africans americans gain equality

Jim Crow laws were designed to prevent African Americans from gaining equality.

Further Explanation:

Jim Crow laws were implemented throughout the early-mid 20th century within the United States. The goal of these laws was to prevent the equal treatment of African American citizens. Many of these laws occurred throughout the country. However, they were more popular in the South in comparison to the North.

After the American Civil War, state governments implemented several laws in order to prevent newly freed slaves from using the social and political rights they gained. After the Civil War, several different constitutional amendments were passed to help African American citizens to thrive in the US. This include laws that outlawed slavery, gave African American men the right to vote in elections, etc.

However, state governments continued to find loopholes in these laws that allowed for the creation of a racially segregated society. Jim Crow laws allowed for the separation of whites and blacks in both public and private spaces. These laws would not be deemed illegal in the US until the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's.

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Topic: American History, Civil Rights movement

Grade Level: 7-12

Keywords: Jim Crow, segregation, Civil Rights movement

Jim Crow Law was a state and local law that was a legal form of discrimination against Africana Americans that became prevalent in America in late 19th century and early 20th century after Reconstruction Period.

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Jim Crow Law was extensively enforced in different parts of America until 1965 and was prevalent both late in19th century and early 20th century. It totally facilitates racial discrimination between the native of America the African Americans. It was facilitating dominance over the American Africans. It enforces isolation on the base of race among the pupil of the nation. After Civil War public education was totally being barred in most of the places of the south for African Americans. Even they were also humiliated and were discriminated from all the public facilities including transportation, economic benefit, public services, restrooms, restaurants, public schools and all other social advantages as compared to the natives of America. They were made slave and were treated in very inhuman manner. Slavery became very much prevalent at that time. There were even different fountains for drinking water for blacks and whites.

The Jim Crow laws recovered the principles of Blacks codes of 1865 and 1866 which prohibits Civil rights and Civil liberties of African Americans. Democrats regained their power in southern legislature with the help insurgent parliamentary groups such as White Shirts and Red shirts in 1870s. They started suppressing blacks and disrupting the Republican organizing with increase in violence against black.

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Grade: High school

Subject: History  

Chapter: Jim Crow Law

Keywords: Jim Crow Law, slavery, Benjamin Butler, Civil Right Act, Civil War, racial, discrimination, African Americans.Civil rights, Civil liberties, African Americans, White Shirts, Red shirts

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.