Discrimination in the Gilded Age

What is the census?

• a count of how many jobs you've had
• a celebration
• the process to add another civilian
• a count of all the people who live in an area

How often is the census conducted?

• every year
• every 10 years
• any time someone is born
• every 50 years

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• enslaved people would count as three-fifths of a person for the census
• Indians were counted for 3/5 of the USA
• African Americans only got three-fifths of their pay check
• the government takes 3/5 of slaves children

What is segregation?

• the act of moving from one place to another
• keeping people or things apart
• not letting people live with you
• a law to protect every race

What is a dissenting vote?

• an agreement
• everyone voted the same
• not agreeing with the majority vote
• voting YES

What was the reason for the Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson?

• They wouldn't quit arguing so they went to court
• it was two men who wanted a war
• they wanted white people to be slaves too
• it challenged the legality of segregation

What was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson case?

• made separate but equal segregation legal
• a war
• slavery ended
• segregation was stopped

What did Cheyenne call African American soldiers?

• servicemen
• fighters
• Buffalo Soldiers
• perseveres

Who was the first African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy?

• John Alexander
• Henry Ford
• Johnny Appleseed
• Henry O. Flipper

Who was the first African American superintendent of Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks?

• Charles Young
• Elvis Presley
• Martin Luther King
• Rosa Parks