Vocabulary Quiz 2

What did the 14th Amendment say?

• Men can vote

• Women can vote

• Slavery is over

• If you are born in the US, you are a US citizen

Define criminalize

• Making a right for a wrong by paying money

• to take away (someone or a groups) rights, especially the right to vote

• To keep one thing separate from another

• To turn (someone) into a criminal by making their activities illegal

What was the purpose of literacy tests?

• To see if people should go to school.

• To prevent African Americans from voting.

• To test people to get a job.

• To make sure everyone could read.

What was sharecropping?

• When people were forced to share their food with their neighbor.

• Former slaves had to give 50% of their crops to the landowner.

• When everyone in the neighborhood works on a community garden.

• Sharing is caring.

What did the 15th Amendment say?

• States cannot deny citizens the right to vote no matter their race.

• Slavery is illegal.

• Women can vote.

• Men get paid equally.

Define reparations

• To keep one thing separate from another

• turn (someone) into a criminal by making their activities illegal

• Making a right for a wrong by paying money

• To take away (someone or a groups) rights, especially the right to vote

What did Plessy v. Ferguson legalize?

• Freedmen get jobs

• Freedmen get land

• Freedmen get rights

• Segregation

Plessy v. Ferguson was a direct challenge to what law?

• 13th Amendment

• 15 Amendment

• One-Drop rule

• Separate Car Act

Define radical

• Making a right for a wrong by paying money

• turn (someone) into a criminal by making their activities illegal

• in favor of extreme and complete political or social change

• To take away (someone or a groups) rights, especially the right to vote

Select all that are correct: What were Black Codes?

• A way for the South to get around the 13th Amendment.

• A way for the South to get around the 14th Amendment.

• A way for the South to get around the 15th Amendment.

• Laws designed to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans.