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Discrimination Against African Americans

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

These laws were enacted for segregation and to keep African Americans from voting. (1877-1963)

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Black Codes

c)

Great Migration

d)

Civil Rights

2.

laws in the south tried to maintain something like slavery after the Civil War.

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Black Codes

c)

Great Migration

d)

Civil Rights

3.

when millions of African Americans moved north to get away from the Jim Crow Laws.

a)

Jim Crow

b)

Black Codes

c)

Great Migration

d)

Civil Rights

4.

Not all __________________ were in the south, they were partially applied in the north and west as well.

a)

Civil Rights Act

b)

Black Codes

c)

Jim Crow laws

5.

the landmark case that said all African Americans were not legal citizens of the United States. (1857)

a)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Civil Rights Act

6.

the landmark case that segregation was based on race was legal. (1896)

a)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

b)

Plessy v Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

The Civil Rights Act

7.

_____________ordered that the army be desegregated. (1948)

a)

President Donald Trump

b)

President Abraham Lincoln

c)

President Barac Obama

d)

President Harry Truman

8.

landmark case that made segregation in public schools illegal. (1954)

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

9.

The_________________ passed in 1964 help put an end to Jim Crow Laws.

a)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Civil Rights Act

d)

Brown v. Board of Education

10.

In order to vote,_____________ had to pay a tax and had to pass a reading test.

a)

African Americans

b)

Whites

c)

Native Americans

d)

Asians

11.

Grandfather clause was the rule that allowed __________ people who couldn’t pass the reading test to vote.

a)

black

b)

Indian

c)

white

d)

Chinese

12.

Harlem, an area in _________, was where many African American moved to.

a)

New York

b)

Africa

c)

Hawaii

d)

Kansas

13.

Born a slave in 1856, became an educator and was one of the foremost African American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as

Tuskegee University.

a)

Harriett Tubman

b)

Booker T Washington

c)

Rosa Parks

d)

Janet Jackson