Question

The effect of Jim Crow laws, passed by Southern states after the Reconstruction period, was _________________.

• A. stricter voting requirements for African Americans.
• B. the loss of citizenship for many African Americans.
• C. separate economies-one run by and for whites and one run by and for African Americans.
• D. a shift in African American loyalties from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.
• E. racial segregation in public facilities.

Answer 1

The correct option is E racial segregation in public facilities.

The effect of Jim Crow laws, passed by Southern states after the Reconstruction period, was racial segregation in public facilities. Black codes and Jim Crow laws were laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation and curtail the power of black voters. After the Civil War ended in 1865, some states passed black codes that severely limited the rights of black people, many of whom had been enslaved.