African Americans had far fewer rights, too. Racist laws known as ............ restricted them to low-paying jobs and made it incredibly difficult for them to vote. These laws also meant black people could be arrested for small things.
Segregation Laws
Black Laws
Black Codes
African laws
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True or false: The Jim Crows laws enforced racial segregation and allowed for discrimination against African Americans – referred to at that time as “colored” people.
True
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How were the laws that operated in Southern United States (which claimed to give African Americans “separate but equal” status and treatment) called?
The Jim Crow Laws
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Why did Rosa have to sit in the back of the bus ?
Because of her skin color
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What did Rosa work as after finishing her high school diploma?
Seamstress
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When she was 19 years old, Rosa married a barber called...
Raymond
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How old was Rosa when she had to leave school to take care of her dying grandmother?
She was 16
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True or false: After her parents separated, Rosa and Sylvester moved with their mother to Tuskegee in Alabama
False: They moved to Montgomery Alabama
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True or false: Rosa's mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter
TRUE
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What year was Rosa born in ?
1913
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What day did Rosa refuse to give up her seat on the bus ?