Race Relations 1 Quiz

Which court case made acts like the one shown in this picture legal?

• Brown v. Board of Education
• Marbury v. Madison
• Plessy v. Fergusson
• Dred Scot v. Sanford

What was the secret white supremacy organization that became a force in Georgia during Reconstruction and tried to prevent freedmen from exercising their civil rights?

• The Georgia Act
• The Freedmen’s Bureau
• The Ku Klux Klan
• The Grange

What does disenfranchisement mean?

• To unfairly separate people into groups.
• To take away the right to vote.
• To segregate.

Which state laws forced segregation in public facilities in the South?

• Jim Crow laws
• Poll taxes
• Literacy tests
• Grandfather clauses

  What was the ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson case? (Hint: Not just the verdict, but tell me the decision of the court.)

• Separate but equal
• Separate but unequal

How did disenfranchisement & Jim Crow laws keep African Americans from voting? 

• People had to pay taxes to vote.
• People had to pass a literacy test.
• People could only vote if their father could vote before the Civil War.
• All of these

This man was asked to sit in the "colored" train car. He refused and was arrested.

• Homer Plessy
• Dred Scott
• Harriet Tubman
• Rosa Parks

A tax that had to be paid before a citizen was able to vote

• Poll tax
• Vote tax
• Literacy tax
• Segregation tax

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

• Literacy Tests
• Voting tests
• Government Tests
• Poll tests

The ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case by the U.S. Supreme Court provided a legal backing for what?

• segregation
• poll taxes
• literacy
• slavery