New South Part II

How did Southern states limit the rights of African Americans after the end of Reconstruction?

• By redrawing state boundaries
• By passing segregation laws
• By educating illiterate white people
• By denying access to fair wages

What was the major impact of Plessy v. Ferguson upon American society?

• This case made no impact upon American society.
• It made segregation illegal and said that “separate was not equal.”
• It upheld segregation laws and made segregation the law of the land
• It made the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments invalid in the Constitution.

What is disenfranchisement?

• Leaving the South in order to find  a better job up North
• Taking away the right to vote
• Segregating facilities that were used in the Southern states
• Denying access to fair wages

What was the impact of literacy tests and poll taxes in Georgia?

• They kept blacks and poor whites from voting
• They started a migration of black to urban areas.
• They caused black and poor whites to work together.
• hey made elections in the sour fairer for everyone.

Why were Jim Crow laws passed in Georgia?

• To encourage industrial growth
• To enforce the policy of segregation
• To protect the civil rights of minorities
• To provide financial relief to farmers

The Southern laws which ensured that blacks and whites attended separate water fountains, attended separate churches, rode in separate railroad cars, and visited separate parks and recreation facilities were BEST known as

• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws
• Populist Laws
• Regressive Laws

Why were literacy tests an effective way to prevent African Americans from voting?

• Most African Americans weren't able to read and write
• African Americans had to pay a tax in order to vote
• African Americans weren’t allowed to use the grandfather clause
• Most African Americans still spoke a language other than English

What does the term “separate but equal” describe?

• The way that land was apportioned among farmers in the south after the Civil War
• The belief in Southern states that African Americans deserve equal rights
• The idea that races could be kept seperate as long as there were equal facilities for both
• A method of voting used in the South during Reconstruction

Which of the following are true of the Atlanta Riot of 1906?

• News of the riot was restricted to Atlanta
• African Americans worried that the white upper class was becoming too powerful
• The riots began due to rumors of AFrican American men attacking white women
• African Americans used violence to protest racial inequality

Who was Homer Plessy?

• Governor of Georgia during Reconstruction
• Member of the KKK who organized race riots
  
• A lawmaker who helped to draft the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
• An African American who refused to move to a segregated railway car