Racial Discrimination in the Progressive Era

-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Booker T. Washington

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

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Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?

• William Lloyd Douglas
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• George Washington     
• Booker T. Washington

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

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The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?

• Assimilation                        
• Civil Rights
• Segregation         
• Desegregation

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

WEB DuBois

• founded the NAACP

• worked in a salt mine at age 9

• was born in Tennessee

• taught job skills to African-Americans

According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?

• Learning skills and trades              
• Holding protests and strikes
• Attending meetings and elections
• Working longer and harder

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Which set of rules denied African Americans the same rights as other Americans in the late 1800’s and into the 1900’s?

• Reconstruction Act                      
• Suffrage Amendments
• Jim Crow Laws                
• Civil Rights Acts

Ida B. Wells spent months gathering information and writing stories about _________________.

• Political Corruption

• Poverty

• Lynching

• Poor Working Conditions

Which Constitutional Amendment finally allowed American women to vote in 1920?

• 15th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 16th Amendment
• 18th Amendment

What is "Suffrage"?

• Right to freedom
• Right to vote
• Right to citizenship
• Right to Temperence

Why were women suffragists angry about the 15th amendment?

• Because it gave African American men the right to vote
• Because it made prohibition illegal
• Because it made alcohol illegal
• Women were not angry about the 15th amendment