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WorksheetsDiscrimination after Reconstruction
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson in the United States?
Many African Americans were unable to vote.
Many African Americans were lynched.
All facilities in the United States were equal.
Segregation was declared legal in the United States.
Which of the following were examples of a Jim Crow laws that we read about? (There may be more than one answer.)
Any white woman who were to conceive a child with a black or biracial man would be sent to prison for 18 months in Maryland.
People of color and white people could not play board games together in Alabama.
No person of color was allowed to cut white women or girls' hair in Georgia.
No person of color was allowed to eat hamburgers in Tennessee
People of color and white people had to use separate hospital entrances in the state of Mississippi.
The Great Migration refers to the shift of the African American population from the
rural South to the rural North
rural North to the rural South
urban South to the urban North
rural South to the urban North
What percent of the African Americans lived in the South before the Great Migration?
50%
65%
80%
90%
Which of the following is NOT a REASON for the Great Migration?
Job Opportunities
Better Education
To escape racism
Better fertile land for farming
In the early 1900s, where did most African Americans live?
The North
The West
The South
What was the Great Migration?
When African Americans left slavery to be free
When African Americans left the North to move South
When African Americans left the South to move North
When African Americans were kidnapped from Africa to be enslaved
This is form of violence in which an angry mob kills a person without a trial (usually by hanging).
radical
impeach
lynching
segregation
This was when the U.S. government created outlines on maps that showed locations where banks should not lend money. These neighborhoods tended to be where African Americans and other people of color lived.
blockbusting
gentrification
filtering
redlining
Segregation by law is known as ___________.
segregtion
integration
de facto segregation
de jure segragation
Segregation by custom or practice is known as ___________
segregation
integration
segregation de jure
segregation de facto
How did most southern states keep African Americans from voting? (There may be more than one answer.)
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
White Primaries
Voter Intimidation
You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.
Grandfather clause
Father Clause
Grandmother Clause
Santa Clause
the act of depriving someone of a right or privilege
suffrage
Jim Crow Laws
disenfranchisement
Reconstruction
Which of the following occurred during the Red Summer of 1919? (There may be more than one answer)
Many returning black World War I veterans began to ask for civil rights.
Thousands upon thousands of African Americans moved to northern cities.
The 19th Amendment was passed.
Violence between white and black communities broke out in dozens of communities in the US.
Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE for African American military members who served in World War I and World War II?
The were segregated in the military
African Americans were often not allowed to serve in leadership positions. Also, they often were given jobs like cook, custodian, etc.
They had to follow Jim Crow Laws in countries throughout Europe
They continued to have to deal with Jim Crow laws back home in the United States.
True or False: In the 1890s, there was at least one African American lynched in the U.S. every day.
True
False
Which of the following statements are true about lynching in the United States? (There may be more than one statement.)
Sometimes lynching was treated like a community event
Sometimes people took photographs of the victims of lynching and made them into postcards
There were over 4,000 recorded lynchings of African Americans in the time period between 1877 to 1950.
Rarely, if ever, were the people who took part in a lynching, brought to trial
True or False: Lynching was often used as a way to terrorize black people. They would "stay in their place" and be less likely to demand civil rights if they were scared.
true
false
What was the name of the African American woman who began to investigate and report o lynchings taking place in the South starting in 1892?
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Tarbell
What was the name of the African country founded in 1878 by a small group of American Blacks who decided that to try to make a fresh start for themselves and their family in another country?
Ghana
Senegal
Guinea
Liberia
Which of the following statements are true about the Red Summer of 1919?
A new Voting Rights Act was passed during the summer of 1919
There were hundreds of deaths and injuries in a series of over twenty different race riots in the U.S.
Most of these "race riots" began with attacks on black communities by mobs
Most of the death, injuries, and destruction disproportionately affected African Americans
"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan." Which poet wrote these lines?
Langston Hughes
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
Thurgood Marshall
