Ch. 13-5 The Rise of Segregation

Match the following year to the event in history.

• 1883

• Mississippi institutes poll tax and literacy tax.

• 1870

• Homer Plessy is arrested for riding in a "whites only" railcar.

• 1875

• Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in public accomodations.

• 1892

• 15th Amendment is ratified: right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 1890

• Supreme Court decision overturns Civil Rights Act

Formerly enslaved African Americans who moved to Kansas in 1879 were known as _______

• 1. sharecroppers.

• 1. migrant workers.

• 1. homesteaders.

• 1. Exodusters.

The primary difficulty of sharecropping was that the farmers ______

• 1. did not have farming experience.

• 1. were constantly in debt.

• 1. had to pay cash for rent.

• 1. could not find enough land to farm.

• How did Democratic leaders try to discourage poor white farmers from joining with African Americans in the Populist movement?

• by appealing to their need to retain a Democratic lock on the Southern states

• by offering free land to white farmers in exchange for their votes

• by warning that such a move would return the region to Reconstruction days

• by forbidding those who were Populists to vote in elections

How did Southern states erode African American voting rights?

• by imposing poll taxes and literacy tests

• by stationing police outside of polling booths

• by preventing African Americans from entering the polls

• by enacting laws that said only white citizens could vote

The laws passed by Southern states that enforced discrimination based on race were known as _______

• 1. Plessy laws.

• 1. Segregation laws.

• New Slave laws.

• 1. Jim Crow laws.

What was the Supreme Court's ruling when it overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

• 1. that private organizations could segregate the races

• 1. that states had the right to enact laws that discriminated against African Americans

• 1. that the races were equal and must be treated equally everywhere

• that African Americans no longer had the right to vote

In 1892, Ida B. Wells launched a campaign aimed at _______

• 1. ending segregation.

• easing voting restrictions for African Americans.

• 1. ending the numerous lynchings in the South.

• 1. amending the Constitution to end discrimination based on race.

How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differ in their approach to Civil Rights?

• 1. Washington wanted to compromise politically while Du Bois did not.

• 1. Washington demanded an immediate end to segregation while Du Bois promoted patience.

• 1. Du Bois promoted violence against whites while Washington called for peace.

• 1. Washington concentrated on voting while Du Bois concentrated on education.

Who led a boycott against department stores in Washington, D.C., that refused to serve African Americans?

• 1. Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• 1. Mary Church Terrell