Unit 6: Quiz 13--Civil Rights at the Turn of the Century

Rules and regulations set up to restrict the rights of African Americans, were called...?

• Race Laws

• Confederate Code

• Jim Crow Laws

• Negro Acts

The policy of separation, in all public facilities, is defined as...?

• Segregation

• Racism

• Separatism

• Elitism

What Supreme Court case established the legal segregation doctrine "Separate but Equal?"

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown V. Board of Education

Which Amendment to the US Constitution did Homer Plessy try to use to strike down the Separate Car Act that resulted in his arrest for sitting in the white section of a railroad car?

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

How did the Supreme Court majority justify their decision that “separate but equal” facilities were legal?

• It was said to help preserve the peace and public order

• It was not really enforced on a day-by-day basis

• It allegedly affected only people with a criminal record

• The Constitution only protects social rights

What Supreme Court case finally overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision by ruling that segregation was unconstitutional?

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Gibbons v. Ogdon

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Board of Education

What early African American Civil Rights leader advocated a policy of accommodation which stated that African Americans must adapt to segregation?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

How did Booker T. Washington believe African Americans could eventually gain equality?

• Through protests and boycotts

• Through sharecropping

• Through education and hard work

• BY completing a trade school

What school was created by Booker T. Washington that emphasized job skills as well as academics?

• Fisk University

• Tuskegee Institute

• Morehouse College

• Allen University

Who was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Mary McLeod Bethune