6.4 Quiz

The idea that blacks should focus on educational and economic progress before demanding political and social equality was known as _______.

• Missouri Compromise

• Atlanta Compromise

• Memphis Compromise

• 3/5ths Compromise

Who was the leading proponent of the Atlanta Compromise?

• W.E.B. Dubois

• President Ulysses S. Grant

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T. Washington

W.E.B. Dubois differed from Booker T. Washington in that he

• supported American imperialism

• supported American isolationism

• supported immediate political and social equality for blacks

• thought education was less important that labor movements

Immediately after emancipation, most blacks in the South made a living

• constructing railroads

• working in factories

• sharecropping or tenant farming

• land speculation

The Supreme Court decision that ruled that segregation was legal so long as it was "separate but equal" was known as

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McCullough v. Maryland

• Roe v. Wade

In his Atlanta Compromise Speech, Booker T. Washington promoted

• Black civil rights

• Black self help

• Black colonization

• Black nationalism

Proponents of the "New South" favored

• Another secession

• Southern industry

• tourism in the South

• Southern socialism

What reported worked tirelessly to shed light on public lynchings of black people?

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, southern state governments used all of the following methods to restrict African American freedoms EXCEPT

• literacy tests

• Jim Crow laws

• poll taxes

• grandfather clauses

• restrictive housing laws

What year was the Plessy v. Ferguson decision?

• 1865

• 1896

• 1900

• 1914