Booker T, WEB and Plessy

What type of education did Washington think would assist African Americans the most give the climate of his time?

• liberal arts
• vocational
• international
• foreign language

• Educator, orator, author, orator
• Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881
• Famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech in 1895 urged moderation in the civil rights struggle

Who is being described?

• W.E.B DeBois

• Fredrick Douglas

• Booker T. Washington

• George Washington Carver

According to Booker T. Washington, which of the following options 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

The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) affected African Americans by--

• guaranteed voting rights to African American women

• legalizing racial segregation (Jim Crow laws)

• expanded civil rights to include American Indians

• guaranteed equal wages for equal work

Who advocated for African Americans to take on menial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?

• WEB Du Bois
• Marcus Garvey
• Booker T. Washington
• Nat Turner

This person helped to found the NAACP

• Ida B Wells
• Booker T Washington
• W E B DuBois
• Martin Luther King Jr.

Which amendment to the US Constitution granted full citizenship to all people born in the United States?

• Civil Rights Act of 1981

• 14th amendment

• 15th amendment

• hippos

This amendment abolished slavery. 

• 12th 
• 13th 
• 14th
• 15th

Why did the government want to end Prohibition?

• Tax money helped fund the government during the Great Depression

• Organized crime was running rampant throughout the United States

• People voted on a referendum to make alcohol legal

• The government banned cigarettes instead

Who believed that equality could be achieved through vocational education?

• Jim Crow
• Henry Ford
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Booker T. Washington