(ch3/ L4) African American Responses to Jim Crow

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• Reconstruction
• segregation
• emancipation
• equality

According to Booker T. Washington, what was the best way for African Americans to gain equality?

• working longer hours at more difficult jobs

• holding protest marches and strikes

• learning skills and trades (vocational education)

• attending political meetings and participating in elections

Answer explanation

Booker T. Washington was willing to wait for full social equality.

Who believed African Americans deserved full political, civil, and social rights immediately?

• Jim Crow

• Henry Ford

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

Who was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

• Alice Paul

• Jacob Lawrence

• Ida B. Wells

• Booker T. Washington

Which statement explains the beliefs of Booker T. Washington?

• African Americans should demand immediate desegregation of schools.

• Higher education, such as the establishment of Tuskegee Institute, would lead to equality for African Americans.

• Passing an amendment to allow African American men the right to vote will lead to equality.

• Laws should be passed to create separate buy equal facilities in public places.

Answer explanation

Tuskegee Institute provided vocational education to African Americans, who still could not attend many all white colleges.

Who worked in support of women's suffrage and against lynching and Jim Crow segregation laws?

• Ida B. Wells

• Susan B. Anthony

• Jane Addams

• Alice Paul

Who believed that African Americans could get equality through vocational education?

• Jim Crow

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

Answer explanation

Vocational education prepares people for skilled jobs.

Which of the following is a reason that African Americans would have moved from the South to the North and West between 1910 and 1930?

• The climate was better.

• There were more jobs.

• The housing was free.

• There were fewer taxes.

During the Great Migration, African Americans chose to move north and west for several reasons.

Which of the following was NOT a reason that they would have migrated?

• The hope for a better job.

• The desire to escape Jim Crow Laws.

• The cotton crop failed and many lost their jobs.

• They wanted to move to a place with a better climate.

Who believed that African Americans deserved full political, civil, and social rights, and was a founder of the NAACP?

• Robert E. Lee

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Charles Drew

• Jane Addams