USA issue 2

Question 1

What is de jure segregation?

Answer 1

Segregation in law - prominent in the south

Question 2

What is the de facto segregation?

Answer 2

Segregation in society- more prominent in the north

Question 3

Ghettos were over ___ homogenous?

Answer 3

90%

Question 4

How many black people migrated to the north during the great migration?

Answer 4

400,000

Question 5

Who’s case went to the Supreme Court?

Answer 5

Homer plessy

Question 6

What did Homer plessys case result in?

Answer 6

1896 separate but equal

Question 7

Which president actively promoted segregation?

Answer 7

Woodrow Wilson

Question 8

What did historian John A Kerr say?

Answer 8

“Black people said that the decision of the Supreme Court made it legal in the USA to discriminate against them and they were right.”

Question 9

By 1900 how many black people could vote?

Answer 9

3%

Question 10

How much did voting qualifications limit black voters?

Answer 10

From 180,000 in 1900 to only 3,000 in 1902

Question 11

When was the KKK refounded?

Answer 11

1915

Question 12

How many members did the KKK have by 1925

Answer 12

5 million

Question 13

How many members did the NAACP have by 1919

Answer 13

91,000

Question 14

How many members did the UNIA have by 1923

Answer 14

6 million