Understanding Segregation in U.S. History
This worksheet explores the history of segregation in the United States, focusing on its causes, impact, and the fight for civil rights.
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Understanding Segregation in U.S. History
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Some questions may require you to recall information about historical events and figures.
1. What term refers to the legal and social system of separating people based on race, particularly in the United States?
Abolition
Integration
Segregation
Suffrage
2. Which landmark Supreme Court case in 1896 established the 'separate but equal' doctrine, legalizing segregation?
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Plessy v. Ferguson
Roe v. Wade
3. The laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern United States were known as laws.
4. Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the Boycott.
5. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
True
False
6. De facto segregation is segregation by law.
True
False
7. Describe one significant impact of segregation on African Americans during the Jim Crow era.
8. Observe the image below of the bus Rosa Parks was on. How does this image visually represent the concept of segregation and the fight against it?
