Question

What effect did Jim Crow laws have on Southern society? a. They created a racially segregated society. b. They prevented African Americans from becoming farmers. c. They prevented the migration of emancipated slaves. d. They promoted peaceful co-existence between blacks and whites.

Answer 1

a. They created a racially segregated society

This is because the Jim Crow Laws were trying to keep black and whites separate. They separated everything toilets, pools parks, schools. Eventually the Supreme Court ruled the Jim Crow Laws unconstitutional and they were abolished.

Answer 2

Jim Crow laws A.) created a racially segregated society. Jim Crow laws were racially motivated laws that created lawfully enforced racial segregation in the South. Segregation forced the separation based upon race in restaurants, schools, public areas, and many others. These oppressive laws came down as a result of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and the major Supreme Court decisions which followed including Brown v. Board of Education and others.