The Jim Crow Laws and Racial Segregation Race for Knowledge

By Jocelyn Matics

Hewes Middle School

Standard 8.11 - Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction

Instructions: This scavenger hunt covers the Jim Crow laws and the racial segregation happening at that time in history. You can print out this paper, so that way you will have something to write your answers on or you can use another piece of paper to write your answers. Look at the question being asked, then you can go to the website to find the answer.

1. Laws

http://www.sju.edu/~brokes/jimcrow.htm

Organize the laws from Georgia in worst to best order

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2. History of Jim Crow

http://culturequest.us/annstillman/monika-jim%20crow%20laws/jim%20crow%20opening.html

Name 3 restrictions that Black people had

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3. Lynching

http://culturequest.us/annstillman/monika-jim%20crow%20laws/lynchings.html

Prioritize the states' total amount from greatest to least

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4. Benjamin "Pap" Singleton

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_single.html

Rephrase everything Pap Singleton did to help the African Americans in a couple of sentences

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5. The "heritage" of Jim Crow (scroll down until you find this section)

http://chicora.org/heritage_not_hate.htm

Improve at least three of the laws

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  1. Plessy vs. Ferguson

    2. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_plessy.html

    Summarize the article in a paragraph

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  2. Surviving Jim Crow

    3. http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/history/surviving.htm

    Analyze and discuss the big ideas

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  3. Jim Crow Era

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/History/go%20west%20-%20go%20east.JPG

Criticize the cartoon, and explain its meaning

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  1. Jim Crow

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm

Name the main events in the order in which they happened

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Congratulations

You have survived! Good job with answering all the questions! I hope you have enjoyed this scavenger hunt, and have learned a lot about the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation at that time. Racial Segregation and the Jim Crow laws was a serious time in our history, that should be understood by everyone, and never repeated again.

Important Disclaimer:

This Scavenger Hunt was created with the intent of helping fellow students broaden personal understanding of California State Standards. The author asks that you report broken links here so that they may be repaired. The author also wishes the "hunter" to know that all links were active and educationally sound at the time this website was created in May 2005. This page is for educational purposes only it may not be used in part or whole for any other purpose. This page may not be pirated, copied, or carried off to any other page with the expressed permission of the owner. You may create a link from your site to this one, but do not violate intellectually property rules by plagiarizing my work.