Post Reconstruction Racism

Question 1

Summarize why so many African-Americans were attracted to the North after Reconstruction?

a. There was no legal segregation in the North
b. There were no lynchings in the North
c. There was no de facto discrimination in the North
d. There were settlement houses in black neighborhoods

Answer 1

a. There was no legal segregation in the north

Question 2

Term used to describe the system of legal segregation in the 1800s and early 1900s?

a. de facto discrimination
b. Jim Crow
c. ragtime
d. lynching

Answer 2

b. Jim Crow

Question 3

Which option below describes the Jim Crow Laws?

a. Illegal segregation that was practiced by some businesses
b. Legal segregation that many businesses often practiced
c. Illegal segregation that was enforced by most states
d. Legal segregation created by many states

Answer 3

d. Legal segregation created by many states

Question 4

Which of the following was NOT an act of violence that African-Americans suffered during this time period?

a. torture
b. Lynchings
c. fair trials
d. none of the above

Answer 4

c. Fair trials

Question 5

Which of the following were African-Americans in the South NOT required to do before they could vote in the 1890s?

a. find gainful employment
b. prove ancestry to vote
c. pay a poll tax
d. pass a literacy test

Answer 5

a. find gainful employment

Question 6

Determine which option below represents W.E.B. DuBois’ hope that education would do for African Americans?

a. provide leadership for African-Americans in their fight for equal rights
b. show African-Americans how to win white acceptance
c. assimilate African-Americans into white culture
d. open up better technical job opportunities for African-Americans

Answer 6

a. provide leadership for African-Americans in their fight for equal rights

Question 7

Summarize how Plessy v. Ferguson affected racial relations in the South.

a. Improved the quality of African-American facilities
b. Desegregated public schools
c. upheld the legality of segregated facilities
d. forced whites and African-Americans to use the same public facilities

Answer 7

c. upheld the legality of segregated facilities

Question 8

Base your answer to the question below on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. “[The registrar] brought a big old book out there, and he gave me the sixteenth section of the constitution of Mississippi, . . . I could copy it like it was in the book, but after I got through copying it, he told me to give a reasonable interpretation and tell the meaning of the section I had copied. Well, I flunked out.” Source: A History of the United States since 1861 / The main intent of the literacy test described in the passage was to:

a. encourage Mississippi residents to learn about their state’s legal system
b. encourage reform of the political system
c. enforce the provisions of the United States Constitution
d. prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right

Answer 8

d. prevent African Americans from exercising a basic right

Question 9

During Reconstruction, the Freedmen’s Bureau

a. created a system for tenant farming.
b. relocated many former slaves to the North.
c. established schools for former slaves.
d. gave forty acres and a mule to former slaves.

Answer 9

c. established schools for former slaves.

Question 10

One of the functions of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to

a. provide assistance to former slaves.
b. relocate former slaves to urban areas.
c. reward veterans with land and money
d. discourage segregation in the South

Answer 10

a. provide assistance to former slaves.

Question 11

How were many African Americans in the South affected after Reconstruction ended in 1877?

a. Jim Crow laws placed major restrictions on their rights.
b. The Freedmen’s Bureau helped them become farm owners.
c. A constitutional amendment guaranteed their social advancement
d. Jim Crow laws had little effect on Freed Black’s rights

Answer 11

a. Jim Crow laws placed major restrictions on their rights.

Question 12

The Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), provided all of the following, except:

a. separate public facilities based on race
b. a promise that white southerners could remain in a superior position in society
c. limitations on the political and economic freedoms of black southerners
d. voting rights for African-American males

Answer 12

d. voting rights for African-American males

Question 13

The Jim Crow laws of the post-Civil War Era were attempts by who to do what?

a. state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans
b. the Federal Government to improve the status of African Americans and Native American Indians
c. the Radical Republicans in Congress to carry out Reconstruction plans
d. states to ban organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan

Answer 13

a. state and local governments to restrict the freedoms of African Americans

Question 14

Summarize how Plessy v. Ferguson affected racial relations in the South.

a. Desegregated public schools
b. Improved the quality of African-American facilities
c. upheld the legality of segregated facilities
d. forced whites and African-Americans to use the same public facilities

Answer 14

c. upheld the legality of segregated facilities

Question 15

______________ believed that the brightest African-Americans had to step forward to seek advanced educations and lead their people.

a. Madam C.J. Walker
b. Charles E. McGee
c. W.E.B. DuBois
d. Booker T. Washington

Answer 15

d. Booker T. Washington

Question 16

The institution of slavery was formally abolished in the United States by the

a. ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865
b. creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1865
c. Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
d. Compromise of 1850

Answer 16

a. ratification of the 13th amendment in 1865

Question 17

Determine which option below represents W.E.B. DuBois’ hope that education would do for African Americans?

a. provide leadership for African-Americans in their fight for equal rights
b. assimilate African-Americans into white culture
c. open up better technical job opportunities for African-Americans
d. show African-Americans how to win white acceptance

Answer 17

a. provide leadership for African-Americans in their fight for equal rights

Question 18

The poll tax, the literacy test, and the actions of the Ku Klux Klan were all attempts to limit the effectiveness of

a. the 14th and 15th amendments
b. the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education
c. immigration laws such as the Gentleman’s Agreement and the Chinese Exclusion Act
d. civil rights legislation passed in all states after the Civil War

Answer 18

a. the 14th and 15th amendments

Question 19

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States were intended to solve problems relating to

a. civil rights.
b. checks and balances.
c. government organization.
d. rapid economic change.

Answer 19

a. civil rights.

Question 20

Which of the following was NOT an act of violence that African-Americans suffered during this time period?

a. fair trials
b. torture
c. mock trials
d. Lynchings

Answer 20

a. fair trials

Question 21

Poll taxes and grandfather clauses were devices used

a. extend suffrage to women and 18-year-old citizens
b. raise money for political campaigns
c. Make it more difficult for African Americans the right to vote
d. prevent immigrants from becoming citizens

Answer 21

c. Make it more difficult for African Americans the right to vote

Question 22

Which of the following were African-Americans in the South NOT required to do before they could vote in the 1890s?

a. pay a poll tax
b. pass a literacy test
c. own property
d. find gainful employment

Answer 22

d. find gainful employment

Question 23

The 14th amendment provides that no “state [shall] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” A direct result of this amendment was that

a. the power of the Federal Government was sharply reduced
b. the process of amending the Constitution became slower and more complex
c. the guarantees in the Bill of Rights were applied to all people in all states
d. every citizen gained an absolute right to freedom of speech, no matter what he/she is saying

Answer 23

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Question 24

Of the options below, describe which role is not one that the NAACP has played since its’ establishment?

a. Pushed for legal segregation of blacks and whites
b. Remained a vita civil rights force for decades up to today
c. Used the court system to make change
d. Pushed to have grandfather clauses outlawed in 1915

Answer 24

a. Pushed for legal segregation of blacks and whites

Question 25

Provision by which groups are exempted from a law if they meet specific conditions before the law was passed term?

a. victorianism
b. literacy tests
c. grandfather clause
d. poll tax

Answer 25

c. grandfather clause

Question 26

“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges . . . of citizens . . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. . . .” The major purpose of these provisions of the 14th Amendment was to

a. maintain competition in business
b. limit the power of the federal government
c. protect the rights of African Americans
d. expand the civil rights of women

Answer 26

c. protect the rights of African Americans