Lesson 5 The Rise of Segregation

Formerly enslaved African Americans who moved to Kansas in 1879 were known as _______

• sharecroppers

• migrant workers

• homesteaders

• Exodusters

The primary difficulty of sharecropping was that the farmers _______

• did not have farming experience

• were constantly in debt

• had to pay cash for rent

• could not find enough land to farm.

How did Democratic leaders try to discourage poor white farmers from joining with African Americans in the Populist movement?

• by appealing to their need to retain a Democratic lock on the Southern states

• by offering free land to white farmers in exchange for their votes

• by warning that such a move would return the region to Reconstruction days

• by forbidding those who were Populists to vote in elections

How did Southern states erode African American voting rights?

• by imposing poll taxes and literacy tests

• by stationing police outside of polling booths

• by preventing African Americans from entering the polls

• by enacting laws that said only white citizens could vote

The laws passed by Southern states that enforced discrimination based on race were known as _______

• Plessy laws

• Segregation laws

• New Slave laws

• Jim Crow laws

What was the Supreme Court's ruling when it overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

• that private organizations could segregate the races

• that states had the right to enact laws that discriminated against African Americans

• that the races were equal and must be treated equally everywhere

• that African Americans no longer had the right to vote

What phrase did the Supreme Court use when it legalized segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• that whites were "superior and different"

• that African Americans could be "separate but equal"

• that African Americans were "equal in the eyes of the law"

• that the Constitution provided "no civil rights protections under the law"

In 1892, Ida B. Wells launched a campaign aimed at _______

• ending segregation

• easing voting restrictions for African Americans

• ending the numerous lynchings in the South.

• amending the Constitution to end discrimination based on race

How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differ in their approach to Civil Rights?

• Washington wanted to compromise politically while Du Bois did not.

• Washington demanded an immediate end to segregation while Du Bois promoted patience.

• Du Bois promoted violence against whites while Washington called for peace.

• Washington concentrated on voting while Du Bois concentrated on education.

Who led a boycott against department stores in Washington, D.C., that refused to serve African Americans?

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Mary Church Terrell