15.0k views
1 vote
What factors led to Jim Crow laws?

User Lisardo
by
8.3k points

2 Answers

7 votes
Jim Crow was a system of segregation and discrimination practiced in Southern and some border states soon after the Civil War. The exact origin of the name is not known, though it is likely to come from a minstrel of the early 1800s.

User USeRnAmEhAhAhAhAhA
by
8.3k points
5 votes
Jim Crow was a system of segregation and discrimination practiced in Southern and some border states soon after the Civil War.
User Zack Allen
by
7.7k points