May 2022 AH2 Final Exam

"In slave times, the Negro was kept subservient and submissive by the whip, but with freedom, a new system of cruelty was born; the free Negro is now lynched."

The above quotation most closely represented the views held by -

• Will Bryan

• Ida B Wells

• Upton Sinclair

• Susan Anthony

Which describes the 19th Amendment?

• Creates an income tax- people pay taxes based on their wealth

• Allows for people to directly elect senators

• Banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol- created Prohibition

• Granted women's suffrage (the right to vote)

Which of these acts was NOT something done by suffragettes?

• secretly poisoning husbands

• chained themselves to public places

• hunger strike

• marches

The 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, portrayed which group as national heroes?

• Cowboys

• Proud Boys

• NAACP

• Ku Klux Klan

Founder of Planned Parenthood

• Margaret Sanger
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Amelia Earhart
• Georgia O'keeffe

When did women get the right to vote?

• 1776
• 1865
• 1920
• 2003

What did many African Americans consider the Compromise of 1877 as a "Great Betrayal"?

• because Republicans abandoned trying to ensure African Americans in the south received equal rights

• because most African Americans had voted for Tilden whom they had hoped would become President

• because the Republicans refused to count African American votes that would have made Hayes President outright

In the late 1800's, why were Jim Crow Laws were passed in the southern states?

• to make sure the 14th amendment would be enforced

• to provide job opportunities for African Americans

• to protect the right to vote for African Americans

• to create separate societies for white and black Americans living in the same states.

What amendment was the constitutional issue in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Defendant's criticism of the draft was not protected by the First Amendment, because it was intended to result in a crime and created a clear and present danger to the enlistment and recruiting service of the U.S. armed forces during WWI. This was the verdict of WHICH court case?

• Plessy vs Ferguson

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Schenck vs. U.S.

• Korematsu vs. U.S.