Ch. 15 Test Practice 2

Which of the following is an example of a Jim Crow law?

• Racial etiquette

• The exclusion of Native Americans from the American political process

• Debt peonage

• Requiring separate railroad cars for Whites and for African Americans

What did Nast's political cartoons show the people that read the newspapers?

• Boss Tweed was stealing from the taxpayers

• Boss Tweed and the political machine could run the city well

• Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall was the best way for immigrants to get jobs

• Boss Tweed and the political machine was only out to help nativists

Jim Crow laws, which were passed in Southern states following Reconstruction, were intended to

• Provide basic education to former slaves

• Encourage African Americans to buy their own farms

• Institute racial segregation

• Support the goals of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment

Besides African Americans, which other minority groups experienced discrimination at the turn of the 20th Century?

• Appalachian Whites

• Mexican Americans

• Native Americans

• Plantation owners of the Antebellum south

• Asian Americans

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court

• Established the "separate but equal" doctrine, upholding segregation

• Ordered universities to enroll more women and African Americans

• Ordered that public schools should upgrade schools for African Americans

• Declared segregation unconstitutional

What groups were the Populist Party trying to help?

• Farmers

• Workers

• Poor people

• Rich people

• business men