Emergence Of Modern America: The Gilded Age - Urbanisation

The video discusses the political landscape for African-Americans post-Civil War, highlighting Hiram Revels' election as the first African-American U.S. Senator. It covers the subsequent disenfranchisement through poll taxes and literacy tests, the enforcement of Jim Crow laws, and the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which legalized segregation for decades.

Who was the first African-American elected to the United States Senate?

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Hiram Revels

What was one of the first legislative measures used to disenfranchise African-Americans in the South?

• The Civil Rights Act

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• Jim Crow Laws

• Poll taxes

What was a common requirement that prevented many African-Americans from voting during the Gilded Age?

• Serving in the military

• Paying a high income tax

• Passing a literacy test

• Owning property

What did the Jim Crow Laws enforce in the Southern United States?

• Economic equality

• Voting rights

• Segregation

• Integration

What was the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• It legalized 'separate but equal' facilities.

• It abolished the poll tax.

• It ended segregation in schools.

• It granted voting rights to African-Americans.