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Module 4 Week 6

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The traveling of long distances in search of a new place to live (Definition question)

a)

Traveling

b)

Vacation

c)

Migration

d)

Exploration

2.

These were African Americans who migrated to Kansas.

a)

Scalawags

b)

Exodusters

c)

Carpetbaggers

d)

Slaves

3.

To set free from bondage or slavery (definition question)

a)

Emancipation

b)

Emigration

c)

Migration

d)

Exoduster

4.

What is White Supremacy?

a)

A name given to African Americans who moved from states that were along the Mississippi River to Kansas

b)

Traveling of long distances in search of a place to live

c)

To be set free from bondage or slavery

d)

The belief that the white race is superior to all other races.

5.

Who were Exodusters?

a)

African Americans who migrated to Kansas in 1878

b)

African Americans who migrated to Kansas in search of economic opportunities

c)

African Americans who wanted to move to Kansas to escape White Supremacy in the South

d)

All the above

6.

African Americans migrated to Kansas during the Exoduster movement because....

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7.

Plessy v. Ferguson

a)

A United States Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal, as long as equal facilities were provided for both races.

b)

The Supreme Court case that ruled that African Americans were allowed to attend white schools.

c)

The Supreme Court case that ruled that Whites were no longer able to discriminate against Blacks

d)

None of the above

8.

The separation of people or things from other groups based on race or religion.

a)

Emancipation

b)

Segregation

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Exoduster

9.

Why was Homer Plessy arrested?

a)

He refused to use the "Blacks Only" bathrooms at school

b)

He refused to move to the "colored" section of the train.

c)

He refused to leave a "whites only" restaurant

d)

He refused to be a slave.

10.

Homer Plessy was 7/8th white and 1/8th black. Would he be allowed to use "whites only" facilities?

a)

Yes, he is a white man, therefore it is not against the law to use their facilities.

b)

Yes. It does not matter that he is 1/8th black because he is more white than black.

c)

No. Since he is not 100% white, it is against the law to use white facilities.

d)

Sometimes he is allowed to use white facilities if he sneaks in.

11.

The power of a court to decide whether a law or decision by the government is constitutional.

a)

Judicial review

b)

Constitutionality

c)

Emancipation

d)

Veto

12.

When a law violates a constitution, it is-

a)

Okay to violate laws

b)

Not okay to violate laws

c)

Unconstitutional

d)

None of the above

13.

Social Studies definition of violate-

a)

The act of doing something that is not allowed by a law or rule.

b)

To kick the President out of office

c)

To veto a president

d)

To accept a new law

14.

Constitutionality answers this question-

a)

"Is sharecropping the same as slavery?"

b)

"Can Homer Plessy sit in the whites only section of the bus?"

c)

"Can I win the Presidential election at age 16?"

d)

"Is this action legal under the Constitution?"

15.

The 14th Amendment granted ______ citizens equal protection under the law.

a)

All

b)

Only white Southerners

c)

Only white Northerners

d)

Only black Northerners

16.

What amendment did Homer Plessy use to argue that it was against the law to have separate facilities for blacks and whites?

a)

Amendment 2 because it violates his right to sit wherever he wanted now that blacks are seen as being equal under the law.

b)

Amendment 10 because it violates his right to sit wherever he wanted now that blacks are seen as being equal under the law.

c)

Amendment 14 because it violates his right to sit wherever he wanted now that blacks are seen as being equal under the law.

d)

Amendment 15 because it violates his right to sit wherever he wanted now that blacks are seen as being equal under the law.

17.

The Supreme Court case that ruled that "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment as long as facilities offered blacks separate areas.

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Homer v. Wade

d)

None of the above

18.

To study very carefully in order to discover the meaning of something

a)

Analyze

b)

Explore

c)

Migrate

d)

Discover

19.

A collection of state and local laws that made racial segregation legal

a)

Amendments 13,14, & 15

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Freedman's Bureau

d)

None of the above

20.

To be less than

a)

Inferior

b)

Superior

c)

Better than

d)

All the above

21.

How did Jim Crow Laws affect the lives of African Americans in a NEGATIVE way?

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22.

What happened to African Americans when Reconstruction ended?

a)

African Americans were able to run for President

b)

African Americans were finally treated with respect by White Southerners

c)

African American rights & freedoms got taken away.

d)

African Americans moved to New York in search of a better life.

23.

The attempted switch from an agricultural South to a more industrial/manufacturing (factories just like in the North!) South.

a)

Exodusters

b)

The "New South"

c)

Slavery

d)

Sharecropping

24.

True or false: The "New South" was a huge success.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

What happened to African Americans after the "New South" failed?

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26.

Jim Crow Laws were created to...

a)

Make the lives of African Americans better

b)

Make laws that were made for the protection of African Americans WEAK.

c)

Make the laws more fair toward African Americans

d)

All of the above

27.

These things were created in order to make voting for African Americans harder...

a)

Poll taxes

b)

Literacy tests

c)

Grandfather clauses

d)

All the above

28.

To compare means to find things that are...

a)

Different

b)

Similar

c)

The same

d)

None of the above

29.

To contrast means to tell how things are...

a)

The same as

b)

Different

c)

The same

d)

All the above

30.

True or false:

Jim Crow laws were used in places like California to take away the rights of Latinos & Asians

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Ida B. Wells led an anti ______ reform

a)

Hate

b)

White Supremacy

c)

Lynching

d)

None of the above

32.

This man founded the Tuskegee Institute

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Angela Davis

d)

Booker T. Washington

33.

This school was created to help African Americans improve their economic opportunities.

a)

The University of Mississippi

b)

Howard University

c)

Tuskegee Institute

d)

The University of Texas at Austin

34.

This man created the NAACP

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

W.E.B. Du Bois

35.

What does the NAACP stand for?

a)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

b)

National Association for the Advancement of Caring People

c)

National Association for the Advancement of Calming People

d)

National Association for the Advancement of Captivating People