GA Studies SS8H7 Test

Select all items that would be an example of a Jim Crow law:

• Limit African-American Voting Rights

• Multicultural classrooms

• Integrated schools

• Separate facilities

What are examples of disenfranchisement ?

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy Test

• Poll Tax

• All of the Above

The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to

• prohibit black citizens from obtaining employment

• limit the religious activities of southern citizens

• create as much division between the races as possible

• make it illegal for black children to receive an education

W.E.B. DuBois was an early leader in the

• labor Movement

• populist Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• women's Suffrage Movement

As members of the Bourbon Triumvirate, Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon all supported

• expanding industry in Georgia

• high taxes for state residents

• equal rights for newly freed slaves

• shutting down the coal mining industry

As a Populist Georgia politician, Tom Watson would have been MOST likely to support causes of

• bankers

• industrialists

• farmers and the working class

• African Americans and immigrants

What was the historical significance of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The case eliminated the power of suffrage in states in the area of civil rights

• The case abolished the equal protection clause of the Constitution

• The case provided legal basis (precedent) for segregation

• The case provided for voting rights for all Americans

What was the immediate cause of the Atlanta Race Massacre of 1906?

• African-American were being denied the right to vote

• The election of Tom Watson as governor of Georgia

• The acquittal of Leo Frank in the murder of Mary Phagan

• Stories in the Atlanta newspapers about African-American men assaulting white women

W.E.B. DuBois was most known for being

• one of the founders of the NAACP

• the founder of the Tuskegee Institute

• one of the designers of Washington, D.C.

• the first African-American on the Supreme Court

The Southern laws which ensured that blacks and whites attended separate schools, drank from separate water fountains, attended separate churches, rode in separate railroad cars, and visited separate parks and recreational facilities were BEST known as

• Black Codes

• Jim Crow Laws

• Populist Laws

• The Official Code of Georgia