WorksheetsCivil Rights at the Turn of the Century (USHA)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
The rules and regulations set up by Southern states in the 1890s to restrict the rights of African Americans.
segregation
Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction
sharecropping
The forced separation or isolation of a group of people from the rest of society.
segregation
federalism
nativism
socialism
Adapting to segregation instead of fighting it.
republicanism
assimilation
accommodation
civil rights
Jim Crow laws—
prevented African Americans from gaining equality
denied African Americans the right to vote
established a policy of segregation in all public facilities
all answer choices are correct
Which of the following was an effect of segregation laws on African Americans?
select all that apply
separate schools with unequal amenities
separate railroad cars
separate waiting rooms in trains and hospitals
separate housing
separate parks, theaters, restaurants, and hospitals
If African Americans disobeyed Jim Crow laws, they faced severe consequences, including scare tactics, intimidation, and lynching.
true
false
"Separate but equal" was part of which U.S. Supreme Court case?
Montpelier v. United States
Homer v. Plessy
Kansas v. Board of Education
Plessy V. Ferguson
Homer Plessy was arrested and jailed for _________.
marrying a white woman
riding in a "whites only" railcar
eating at a "white only" restaurant
trying to vote
The court upheld the legality of segregation and “separate but equal” facilities by ruling that the Separate Car Act did not reestablish slavery.
true
false
In Plessy v. Ferguson, the court ruled that the _____ Amendment protected political/civil rights, and not social rights.
13th
14th
15th
16th
In Brown v. _________ (1954), the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional.
Board of Education
Anderson
Alabama School District
Topeka School Board
_________ was an an influential speaker, leader, and educator who wrote Up from Slavery.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Washington Carver
In 1881, Booker T. Washington helped establish the Tuskegee Institute, which emphasized job skills as well as academics.
true
false
W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963), was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
true
false
W.E.B. Dubois argued that segregation would only end if African Americans took action to end it.
true
false
The NAACP was formed in response to violence against African Americans, such as the ______ race riots.
Tulsa
Springfield
Milwaukee
Los Angeles
Du Bois wrote The _______ of Black Folk (1903), in which he said accommodation would only reinforce segregation and discrimination.
Spirit
Dreams
Anger
Souls
Accommodation, patience, education, hard work, job skills, and the Tuskegee Institute all refer to—
Jim Crow laws
Homer Plessy
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Dubois
Activism, fight for civil rights, the NAACP, "Talented Tenth,” and Classical education all refer to—
W.E.B. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Thurgood Marshall
Nat Turner
______ rights are an expansive and significant set of rights that are designed to protect individuals from unfair treatment.
Political
Social
Civil
Natural
