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WorksheetsJim Crow Era
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 28mins
This was the Supreme Court case that legalized segregation in America
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Forcing a person to read a paragraph before they were allowed to vote is called a
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
Lynching
Forcing a person to pay a fee to vote is called a
Poll tax
Lynching
Literacy Test
Grandfather clause
This Black leader was born in the north and was the first African American to graduate with a Ph.D from Harvard University
Malcolm X
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson said that whites and blacks could be segregated if spaces were
old and new
Even and uneven
Separate but equal
Fair and equal
True or False: It was illegal for black and whites to get married during the Jim Crow era?
True
False
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
Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?
to keep African Americans as sharecroppers
to keep African Americans as second-class citizens
to force African Americans to move to the north
to keep African Americans as slaves
What does disenfranchisement mean?
To unfairly separate people into groups.
To take away the right to vote.
To segregate.
to grant the right to vote
This civil rights leader said that African Americans should demand their rights now and should be treated equal to whites
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Which African American activist wrote about lynching in the South to bring attention to the crime.
Susan B Anthony
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B Wells
Who was Langston Hughes?
A famous musician of the Harlem Renaissance
A famous politician of the Harlem Renaissance
A famous poet and writer of the Harlem Renaissance
A famous basketball player of the Harlem Renaissance
Where did the name "Jim Crow" come from?
They were named after the man who created the laws.
It came from a character created by a white stage actor.
It came from slavery
It came from the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Which amendment granted African American males the right to vote?
15th
19th
1st
14th
Wells wrote about many ideas related to equal rights, but which topic did she spend most of her time writing about?
The lynching of African Americans
School segregation
Voting rights
Slavery
-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Booker T. Washington
Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. DuBois
Jacob Lawrence
Which activist created the idea of the Talented Tenth.
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida Wells
Booker T. Washington
In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?
Booker T Washington
Alexander Graham Bell
WEB DuBois
Thomas Edison
Which Civil Rights leader believed African-Americans should form their own communities or move to Africa?
Marcus Garvey
Ida Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Which Civil Rights leader pushed for African-Americans to receive immediate full citizenship rights?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Which Civil Rights leader advocated for African-Americans to improve themselves through education and job training?
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida Wells
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
Most African American soldiers:
were forced to serve on the front lines in the trenches.
were too scared to fight.
were laborers in non-combat units.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A travelling basketball team
A rebirth of African American culture in art, music, and literature
A medieval game
Time period of around 1210 a.d. when the games of jousting and art became popular
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
famous African American author and poet
famous African American musician
famous African American artist
In Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too"...what is the tone of the poem?
Anger at the past
Humorous Joy
Optimistic Realism
Fearful of the Future
Who painted this "Great Migration"?
Jacob Lawrence
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
How did African American involvement in World War II
impact post-war America?
They encouraged the practice of segregated military units.
They migrated to the South in search of jobs in agriculture.
They joined the armed forces in record numbers.
They increased efforts to end racial discrimination.
What were the two goals of the double v campaign during World War II?
Victory at home against fascism and victory abroad against racism
Victory at home against racism and victory abroad against fascism
Victory abroad against the Germans and the Japanese
Victory abroad against the Japanese and victory at home against the Nazis.
What is the topic of the song, "Strange Fruit"?
the KKK
the Jim Crow laws
Lynching
the Great Migration
In the second stanza of the song, "Strange Fruit"
,
"Pastoral (tranquil) scene of the gallant (polite) south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh."
What literary technique is used?
metaphor
irony
hyperbole
symbolism
What did the movie, "Birth of a Nation" popularize?
The Harlem Renaissance
Jazz music
the Ku Klux Klan
The need for Jim Crow laws
Which of the following is an example of Jim Crow etiquette?
A black man could not light the cigarette of a white woman.
Marriage between black and white Americans was forbidden.
Black and white children were forbidden from playing games together.
Poll taxes were required to vote in elections.
How did the explosion of culture in the Harlem Renaissance help the struggle for equal rights?
Black cultural expression became mainstream in white American society.
White Americans stopped believing the KKK.
Segregation ended and Jim Crow laws were outlawed.
Black culture became the only form of pop culture in America.
Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?
A regiment of Black soldiers during World War II.
A regiment of Black soldiers during the Civil War.
A regiment of Black soldiers during World War I.
A band that played at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York.
All of the following were push factors for the Great Migration EXCEPT...
Jobs in factories during WWI.
Lynching
Jim Crow Laws
Poverty
What major world event triggered the Great Migration?
World War II.
World War I.
Plessy v. Ferguson.
The Harlem Renaissance
All of the following are cause and effect relationships EXCEPT...
the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance and the Harlem Hellfighters
Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow Laws
The Rise of the KKK and Increase in Lynching
Which activist said this:
"Our country’s national crime is lynching..… no matter that mobs make a joke of the law and a mockery of justice; with all the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition and all the barbarism of the Middle Ages. The world looks on and says it is well."
Ida Wells
Booker T Washington
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Which activist said this;
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house..."
Ida Wells
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
Marcus Garvey
Which activist said this;
"Nevertheless, I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men;…"
Ida Wells
Marcus Garvey
WEB DuBois
Booker T Washington
Which activist said this;
"We have no hostility against the white man. All that we have, as a race desired is a place in the sun. Four million people are too numerous not to have a place in the sun."
Ida Wells
Marcus Garvey
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
What year was the Tulsa Race Massacre?
1921
1920
1900
2001
What was the nickname given to the area hit by the massacre?
Black Wall Street
Wall Street
Oiland
Beezer's
What event caused the massacre?
A black man was accused of assaulting a white woman
There was no cause
White Tulsans didn't like Black Wall Street
Jealousy
What was unique about Greenwood?
It was the wealthiest black community in the country
There was nothing unique about Greenwood
They had a great sports team
