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Civil Rights at the Turn of the Century (USHA)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The rules and regulations set up by Southern states in the 1890s to restrict the rights of African Americans.

a)

segregation

b)

Jim Crow laws

c)

Reconstruction

d)

sharecropping

2.

The forced separation or isolation of a group of people from the rest of society.

a)

segregation

b)

federalism

c)

nativism

d)

socialism

3.

Adapting to segregation instead of fighting it.

a)

republicanism

b)

assimilation

c)

accommodation

d)

civil rights

4.

Jim Crow laws—

a)

prevented African Americans from gaining equality

b)

denied African Americans the right to vote

c)

established a policy of segregation in all public facilities

d)

all answer choices are correct

5.

Which of the following was an effect of segregation laws on African Americans?


select all that apply

a)

separate schools with unequal amenities

b)

separate railroad cars

c)

separate waiting rooms in trains and hospitals

d)

separate housing

e)

separate parks, theaters, restaurants, and hospitals

6.

If African Americans disobeyed Jim Crow laws, they faced severe consequences, including scare tactics, intimidation, and lynching.

a)

true

b)

false

7.

"Separate but equal" was part of which U.S. Supreme Court case?

a)

Montpelier v. United States

b)

Homer v. Plessy

c)

Kansas v. Board of Education

d)

Plessy V. Ferguson

8.

Homer Plessy was arrested and jailed for _________.

a)

marrying a white woman

b)

riding in a "whites only" railcar

c)

eating at a "white only" restaurant

d)

trying to vote

9.

The court upheld the legality of segregation and “separate but equal” facilities by ruling that the Separate Car Act did not reestablish slavery.

a)

true

b)

false

10.

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the court ruled that the _____ Amendment protected political/civil rights, and not social rights.

a)

13th

b)

14th

c)

15th

d)

16th

11.

In Brown v. _________ (1954), the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional.

a)

Board of Education

b)

Anderson

c)

Alabama School District

d)

Topeka School Board

12.

_________ was an an influential speaker, leader, and educator who wrote Up from Slavery.

a)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

b)

W.E.B. Dubois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Washington Carver

13.

In 1881, Booker T. Washington helped establish the Tuskegee Institute, which emphasized job skills as well as academics.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963), was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

a)

true

b)

false

15.

W.E.B. Dubois argued that segregation would only end if African Americans took action to end it.

a)

true

b)

false

16.

The NAACP was formed in response to violence against African Americans, such as the ______ race riots.

a)

Tulsa

b)

Springfield

c)

Milwaukee

d)

Los Angeles

17.

Du Bois wrote The _______ of Black Folk (1903), in which he said accommodation would only reinforce segregation and discrimination.

a)

Spirit

b)

Dreams

c)

Anger

d)

Souls

18.

Accommodation, patience, education, hard work, job skills, and the Tuskegee Institute all refer to—

a)

Jim Crow laws

b)

Homer Plessy

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

W.E.B. Dubois

19.

Activism, fight for civil rights, the NAACP, "Talented Tenth,” and Classical education all refer to—

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Thurgood Marshall

d)

Nat Turner

20.

______ rights are an expansive and significant set of rights that are designed to protect individuals from unfair treatment.

a)

Political

b)

Social

c)

Civil

d)

Natural