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The main idea of the Jim Crow Laws were what?

During the Great Depression, what was the unemployment rate? (it was even higher for blacks)

Background for Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

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1
During the Great Depression, what was the unemployment rate? (it was even higher for blacks)
15%
10%
30%
25%
2
The main idea of the Jim Crow Laws were what?
"slavery is legal"
"all human rights"
"separate but equal"
"slavery is illegal"
3
What years did the Great Depression take place? (started with the stock market crashing)
1929-1940s
1896-1911
1980-2001
1945-1963
4
Where did Mildred D. Taylor grow up?
Kansas
Mississippi
Oregon
Ohio
5
Who were the Little Rock 9?
A new rock band
9 black students who were blocked from entering white school
9 students who planned the countries largest sit in
They road the bus with Rosa Parks
6
What inspired her to write her novels?
She read about stories and wanted to make them into novels
Her family's stories
Her own life experiences
She was inspired in college in a Black History class
7
When did the Jim Crow laws begin?
1896
1932
1915
1875
8
Who is the author of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry?
Harper Lee
Betsy Ross
Mildred D. Taylor
Virginia T. Smith
9
What is sharecropping?
When several Black families get together and share a farm.
the bank owns property and people divide it up to farm it
when you gamble someone else's money away
poor/black families stay free & farm someone else's property
10
What was the Brown vs. The Board of Education about in 1954?
100 Black Students protested at the supreme court
The Board of Education opened the first Black college
the court ruled schools can no longer be segregated
Black Schools received equal funding