SS Pop Quiz 6/6

Question 1

What was Booker T. Washington born into

Answer 1

Slavery

Question 2

When did Booker T. Washington become free

Answer 2

After the Civil War

Question 3

What did Booker T. Washington believe?

Answer 3

He believed in black people learning a skill

Question 4

What did Booker T. Washington say?

Answer 4

Equality is like fingers on a hand: they can be separate but part of the same hand

Question 5

What are three ways to describe Booker T. Washington?

Answer 5

Perseverant, patient, and a realist

Question 6

What is Booker T. Washington ok with that some people are against?

Answer 6

Waiting for equality and being patient

Question 7

Why did some black people criticize Booker T. Washington?

Answer 7

He’s too slow and is accepting a certain level of racism. They think that they will have to wait forever

Question 8

What kind of family was WEB Du Bois born into?

Answer 8

A wealthy, black, Massachusetts family

Question 9

Was WEB Du Bois well educated?

Answer 9

Yes, he went to some of the best schools, including Harvard

Question 10

Who left the US because he was upset with society?

Answer 10

WEB Du Bois

Question 11

How can you describe WEB Du Bois and why?

Answer 11

Impatient, because he is demanding equality right now!

Question 12

What does WEB Du Bois claim?

Answer 12

He claims that laws have been passed establishing Freedom & Civil Rights - so they should claim those rights

Question 13

Where is Marcus Garvey from?

Answer 13

He is a Jamaican political activist

Question 14

What is Marcus Garvey the Founder and President-General of?

Answer 14

UNIA (Universal Negro
Improvement Association since 1914

Question 15

What did Marcus Garvey try to create?

Answer 15

Pride in being black

Question 16

What is Marcus Garvey famous for?

Answer 16

The Back to Africa Movement

Question 17

Why does Marcus Garvey want people to leave America?

Answer 17

• Doesn’t want to be where they aren’t wanted
• Wanted to give the racist people what they wanted
• Didn’t want to feel less than
• Believed black people needed to be financially independent from white-dominated societies
• Does not have faith in the American people

Question 18

When did people start to know who Martin Luther King Jr. Is?

Answer 18

At the Montgomery Bus Boycott triggered by Rosa Parks

Question 19

Who did Martin Luther King Jr. study?

Answer 19

Gandhi, copied her ideas

Question 20

Who was Gandhi?

Answer 20

Someone who fought for colonialism and for freedom of India to not be a colony of England

Question 21

What did Gandhi believe?

Answer 21

Non violent protest is the best approach, if someone beats you up don’t fight back

Question 22

Civil disobedience

Answer 22

Knowingly breaking the law because it’s immoral

Question 23

13th Amendment

Answer 23

1865 - banned slavery

Question 24

14th Amendment

Answer 24

1868 - Born on US soil = citizenship, deserves equal protection under the law

Question 25

15th Amendment

Answer 25

1870 - black men can vote (women left out)

Question 26

Dred Scott Case

Answer 26

1857 - slaves are property, African Americans do not have rights

Question 27

Plessy Vs Ferguson

Answer 27

1896 - Made “Jim Crow” segregation legal, lasts until 1960s

Question 28

Brown vs the Board of Education

Answer 28

1954 - integrates public schools and overturns Plessy Vs Ferguson