USHC - Unit 3 - Spiral Review #10 - Fitzwater

How was the sharecropping arrangement entered into by many African Americans similar to the practice of slavery?

• Sharecroppers depended on white farmers for food, clothing, and other basic necessities

• Sharecroppers kept African Americans economically dependent on white farmers

• Sharecroppers were forced to observe the same religious practices of the land owner for whom they worked

• Sharecropping was closely regulated by the government with strict rules about working conditions and hours

What political development resulted from the Compromise of 1877?

• A renewal of Republican commitment to protect black civil rights in the South

• The withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of black rights in the South

• Republican support for an inflationary silver-money policy

• A plan to build the transcontinental railroad

Starting in the 1870s, why were Jim Crow laws enacted in Southern states?

• Provide an education for formerly enslaved persons

• Protect the voting rights of formerly enslaved persons

• Enforce racial segregation

• Ensure equal protection under the law

How did the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson solidify the inferiority of African Americans in the United States?

• Establishing the principle of “separate but equal”

• Allowing the Ku Klux Klan to operate in the South

• Refusing to pass antilynching laws

• Finding the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude…”

·         15^th Amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution, 1870

Which actions did southern states take to keep African Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed in this amendment?

• Suspending habeas corpus and denying women the right to vote

• Collecting poll taxes and requiring literacy tests

• Establishing religious and property-holding requirements for voting

• Passing Black Codes and establishing segregated schools

Why did some African Americans in northern states criticize the ideas of Booker T. Washington?

• They did not believe education would improve economic conditions for African Americans in the South

• They believed Washington was too aggressive in his approach and his ideas would lead to violence

• They felt his plan accommodated whites and kept African Americans as second-class citizens

• They believed Washington lacked the charisma and oratory skills to be a spokesman for equal rights

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois shared the belief that African Americans should...

• Use force to bring an immediate end to segregation in public facilities

• Pursue education as the key to improving social status

• Recognize that the growth of labor unions was the major barrier to economic advancement

• Strive for immediate social equality with whites

In the early 20^th century, which policy for the advancement of African Americans was favored by W.E.B. DuBois and the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

• Immediate action to end segregation and win equal rights

• Mass migration to northern cities

• Establishment of a new republic in Africa for freedmen

• Emphasis on economic advancement over social equality

Which act of Congress most directly contributed to the situation shown in this photo?

• Homestead Act

• The Sherman Antitrust Act

• The purchase of Alaska

• Interstate Commerce Act

Which pair of events shows an accurate cause-and-effect relationship?

• Extinction of the buffalo -> passage of the Pacific Railway Act

• Discovery of gold in the Black Hills -> Ghost Dance movement begins

• Passage of the Dawes Act -> further assimilation of Native Americans

• Massacre at Wounded Knee -> start of Plains Indian Wars