ETHN 101 Chapter 7 (Pre-Test, Key
Terms, Post-Test)
What legal act made slavery illegal in America? - correct answer ✔The 13 th
Amendment
Segregation that is the result of official policies—i.e., laws—that establish
separate schools, work places, and accommodations for different racial
populations. - correct answer ✔de jure
Segregation that is not the result of official policies that establish separate
schools work places, and accommodations for different racial populations but
of other processes. The main cause is often housing segregation
accompanied by economic and educational disparities. - correct answer ✔de
facto
What are Jim Crow laws? - correct answer ✔all of the above
What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)? - correct
answer ✔Separate but equal accommodations for Whites and African-
Americans were acceptable.
In Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954), argued by Thurgood Marshall
who would later become the first African American member of the U. S.
Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" laws and
policies were unconstitutional. - correct answer ✔True
The critical event that triggered the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in
1955 was Rosa Parks' refusal to yield her bus seat to a White person. -
correct answer ✔True
Terms, Post-Test)
What legal act made slavery illegal in America? - correct answer ✔The 13 th
Amendment
Segregation that is the result of official policies—i.e., laws—that establish
separate schools, work places, and accommodations for different racial
populations. - correct answer ✔de jure
Segregation that is not the result of official policies that establish separate
schools work places, and accommodations for different racial populations but
of other processes. The main cause is often housing segregation
accompanied by economic and educational disparities. - correct answer ✔de
facto
What are Jim Crow laws? - correct answer ✔all of the above
What did the Supreme Court rule in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)? - correct
answer ✔Separate but equal accommodations for Whites and African-
Americans were acceptable.
In Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954), argued by Thurgood Marshall
who would later become the first African American member of the U. S.
Supreme Court, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" laws and
policies were unconstitutional. - correct answer ✔True
The critical event that triggered the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in
1955 was Rosa Parks' refusal to yield her bus seat to a White person. -
correct answer ✔True
