Big Timer's Do You Know Anything Quiz ?

Which of the statements correctly compares the Freedmen's Bureau to the Ku Klux Klan?

• Both the Freedmen's Bureau and the KKK were eventually outlawed in Congress.

• Both the Freedmen's Bureau and the KKK were originally created through acts of Congress.

• Both the Freedmen's Bureau and the KKK used violent means to accomplish their goals.

• Both the Freedmen's Bureau and the KKK were created in response to changing social conditions.

The main goal for the development of the Freedmen's Bureau was:

• to register newly freed African Americans to vote

• to manage distribution of farmland and animals to newly freed African Americans

• to provide education, training, and support to newly freed African Americans and poor whites

• to help the government round up KKK members

Which Reconstruction plan was designed to make it quick and easy for the Southern states to rejoin the Union?

• Lincoln and Johnson's Plan

• Congressional Plan

• Radical Plan

• Military Plan

What was President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction called?

• 10% Plan

• 100% Plan

• Congressional Plan

• Radical Republican Plan

When an individual takes money they could have spent but instead puts it into a bank or investment account is the benefit of which of the following?

• decreased debt

• savings

• interest

• low credit score

The late-19th century and early 20th century laws which required 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

• Regressive Politics

What event took place in Atlanta during the 1880s & 1890s that helped promote the 'New South' and lure Northern investors into the region?

• World's Fair

• International Cotton Exposition

• Olympic Games

• Andersonville Prison Memorial Tour

Whose propaganda was used to spread antisemitism in Georgia?

• Leo Frank

• Tom Watson

• Henry Grade

• Alfred H. Colquitt

A leading figure in the People's Party, also known as the Populist Party, Tom Watson was chosen as the party's 1904 presidential candidate. Based on your knowledge of Watson and the Populists, which of these causes would Watson have MOST LIKELY supported?

• reducing government regulation

• lowering taxes to help poor farmers

• eliminating restrictions on immigration

• raising taxes to finance industrial expansion

Booker T. Washington was a pioneer of the early Civil Rights Movement. What did Washington believe regarding African Americans achieving equal rights?

• He believed that economic independence was the only way to achieve social and political equality.

• He believed that equal rights are God-given rights, and therefore, should not be denied.

• Washington believed that in order for African Americans to achieve equality, they must join the NAACP.

• He thought that equality was a lost cause, and that African Americans should use violence to achieve it.