SS8H7bd Discrimination in the New South

Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution protected the right to vote for African American men?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 19th

Which tactics were commonly used in the South to prevent African American people from voting after Reconstruction? (Choose 2)

• poll taxes

• rallies

• literacy tests

• amendments

Which organization used scare tactics to promote racial violence during the New South Era?

• Bourbon Triumvirate

• Ku Klux Klan

• NAACP

• Populist Party

What was one of the main goals of the organization that used scare tactics to promote racial violence?

• to prevent black and white farmers from uniting

• to prevent the Democratic Party from gaining power

• to prevent the return to plantation agriculture

• to prevent black voters from exercising their 15th amendment rights

Leo Frank was accused of murdering Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old worker in an Atlanta factory. Choose the correct ending for each sentence to describe the events that followed this accusation. (Not all answers will be used.)

Leo Frank was a/an ​ (a)   . At his trial, Leo Frank was ​​ (b)   . Two years after the verdict, Leo Frank was ​ (c)   by an angry mob. More than 70 years after the verdict, Leo Frank was ​ (d)   .

• Jewish factory supervisor
• found guilty
• kidnapped and hanged
• proven innocent
• African American factory worker
• released from prison

What did the Leo Frank case demonstrate? (Choose 2)

• Effects of segregation

• Effects of antisemitism

• Resistance to racial equality

• Resistance to Jim Crow laws

What were the effects of Jim Crow laws? (Choose 3)

• Integration in public life

• Segregation in public life

• Denial of African American rights

• Approval of new constitutional amendments

• Discrimination against African American people

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson was a result of ​ (a)   .

• Jim Crow laws
• the Leo Frank case
• the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre

Homer Plessy’s legal team argued that ​ (a)   .

• segregation violated the 14th Amendment
• segregation violated the 15th Amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that

• all children receive permission to attend the same school.

• whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks.

• the segregation laws did not spread outside of the Southern states.

• the separate facilities or services for both races be of equal quality.