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Discrimination after Reconstruction

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson in the United States?

a)

Many African Americans were unable to vote.

b)

Many African Americans were lynched.

c)

All facilities in the United States were equal.

d)

Segregation was declared legal in the United States.

2.

Which of the following were examples of a Jim Crow laws that we read about? (There may be more than one answer.)

a)

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.

b)

People of color and white people could not play board games together in Alabama.

c)

No person of color was allowed to cut white women or girls' hair in Georgia.

d)

No person of color was allowed to eat hamburgers in Tennessee

e)

People of color and white people had to use separate hospital entrances in the state of Mississippi.

3.

The Great Migration refers to the shift of the African American population from the

a)

rural South to the rural North

b)

rural North to the rural South

c)

urban South to the urban North

d)

rural South to the urban North

4.

What percent of the African Americans lived in the South before the Great Migration?

a)

50%

b)

65%

c)

80%

d)

90%

5.

Which of the following is NOT a REASON for the Great Migration?

a)

Job Opportunities

b)

Better Education

c)

To escape racism

d)

Better fertile land for farming

6.

In the early 1900s, where did most African Americans live?

a)

The North

b)

The West

c)

The South

7.

What was the Great Migration?

a)

When African Americans left slavery to be free

b)

When African Americans left the North to move South

c)

When African Americans left the South to move North

d)

When African Americans were kidnapped from Africa to be enslaved

8.

This is form of violence in which an angry mob kills a person without a trial (usually by hanging).

a)

radical

b)

impeach

c)

lynching

d)

segregation

9.

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.

a)

blockbusting

b)

gentrification

c)

filtering

d)

redlining

10.
Which of the following is an example of de jure (legal segregation)?
a)
White Flight
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
DuBois Factor
d)
Title IX
11.

Segregation by law is known as ___________.

a)

segregtion

b)

integration

c)

de facto segregation

d)

de jure segragation

12.

Segregation by custom or practice is known as ___________

a)

segregation

b)

integration

c)

segregation de jure

d)

segregation de facto

13.

How did most southern states keep African Americans from voting? (There may be more than one answer.)

a)

Poll Taxes

b)

Literacy Tests

c)

White Primaries

d)

Voter Intimidation

14.
Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877.  The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called
a)
Jim Crow Laws
b)
Black Codes
c)
Freedman's Bureau
d)
Reconstruction
15.

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Father Clause

c)

Grandmother Clause

d)

Santa Clause

16.

the act of depriving someone of a right or privilege

a)

suffrage

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

disenfranchisement

d)

Reconstruction

17.

Which of the following occurred during the Red Summer of 1919? (There may be more than one answer)

a)

Many returning black World War I veterans began to ask for civil rights.

b)

Thousands upon thousands of African Americans moved to northern cities.

c)

The 19th Amendment was passed.

d)

Violence between white and black communities broke out in dozens of communities in the US.

18.

Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE for African American military members who served in World War I and World War II?

a)

The were segregated in the military

b)

African Americans were often not allowed to serve in leadership positions. Also, they often were given jobs like cook, custodian, etc.

c)

They had to follow Jim Crow Laws in countries throughout Europe

d)

They continued to have to deal with Jim Crow laws back home in the United States.

19.

True or False: In the 1890s, there was at least one African American lynched in the U.S. every day.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Which of the following statements are true about lynching in the United States? (There may be more than one statement.)

a)

Sometimes lynching was treated like a community event

b)

Sometimes people took photographs of the victims of lynching and made them into postcards

c)

There were over 4,000 recorded lynchings of African Americans in the time period between 1877 to 1950.

d)

Rarely, if ever, were the people who took part in a lynching, brought to trial

21.

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.

a)

true

b)

false

22.

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?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Ida B. Tarbell

23.

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?

a)

Ghana

b)

Senegal

c)

Guinea

d)

Liberia

24.

Which of the following statements are true about the Red Summer of 1919?

a)

A new Voting Rights Act was passed during the summer of 1919

b)

There were hundreds of deaths and injuries in a series of over twenty different race riots in the U.S.

c)

Most of these "race riots" began with attacks on black communities by mobs

d)

Most of the death, injuries, and destruction disproportionately affected African Americans

25.

"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?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Thurgood Marshall