African Americans Persist - Unit 2

Multiple Choice

Which of the following organizations was NOT mentioned as a key terror group targeting African American communities after Reconstruction?

• Ku Klux Klan

• White League

• Red Shirts

• Black Panthers

Open Ended

Explain how poll taxes and literacy tests were used to disenfranchise African American voters in the Southern states.

Multiple Choice

Booker T. Washington encouraged African Americans to acquire vocational training primarily to achieve which of the following?

• Political power

• Economic independence

• Social segregation

• Immediate civil rights

Multiple Select

Which of the following were missions of the NAACP when it was founded?

• Promote equal rights

• Eliminate discrimination

• Protect voting rights

• Support vigilante groups

Open Ended

Explain how voter suppression affected African American political participation and representation in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.