The Challenge of Freedom Quiz

What was the system called where landowners let freed African Americans farm on their land and gave them tools and seeds?

• Segregation

• Jim Crow

• Sharecropping

• Reconstruction

Which organization was formed to stop African Americans from taking part in government?

• Tuskegee Institute

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedmen's Bureau

• NAACP

What did President Rutherford B. Hayes tell the federal troops to do in 1877?

• Enforce Jim Crow laws

• Leave the South

• Protect African Americans

• Open the Tuskegee Institute

What were the Jim Crow laws designed to do?

• Provide education for African Americans

• Keep African Americans separate from other Americans

• Help African Americans buy land

• Support African American voting rights

Who opened the Tuskegee Institute in 1881?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

What was the main purpose of the Tuskegee Institute?

• To enforce segregation

• To provide military training

• To educate African Americans and teach them useful skills

• To support sharecropping

What did many African Americans lose when federal troops left the South?

• Their land

• Their political power

• Their education

• Their homes

What did many African Americans believe was important for their progress?

• Military service

• Education

• Sharecropping

• Migration to the North

What role did churches play in African American communities after Reconstruction?

• They were centers for political meetings

• They were centers for education and community activities

• They were used as hospitals

• They were used for sharecropping agreements

What was the impact of Jim Crow laws on public facilities?

• They were integrated

• They were segregated

• They were closed down

• They were improved