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African American Struggles

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Jim Crow?

a)

An abolitionist

b)

A president

c)

Racist persona

d)

A person against slavery

2.

What were Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Laws that enforced freedom within the black community

b)

Supported slavery

c)

Separate but equal

d)

Laws that legalized racial segregation

3.

When were laws enforced?

(Check all that apply)

a)

1950

b)

1860

c)

1850

d)

1870

4.

What were black codes?

a)

Separation of different racial groups

b)

Laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans

c)

Codes African Americans used to escape slavery

d)

All of the above

5.

What jobs were common for African Americans during this time period?

a)

Farming

b)

Cashiers

c)

Industrial workers

d)

Sharecropping

6.

What is sharecropping?

a)

A system African Americans used to crop

b)

A landlord allows a tenant to use the crop in exchange for a share of the land

c)

Not a form of slavery

d)

A landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop

7.

What was the meaning of Separate but Equal?

a)

Laws created to prevent African Americans from having opportunities

b)

Legalized racial segregation

c)

As long as there were equal facilities it was okay to separate them by race

d)

All of the above

8.

What was the Ku Klux Klan?

a)

A racist group of people who did black face to depict African Americans and their culture

b)

Southern Democrats who wanted to restore white supremacy in the South

c)

A white supremacist group who mainly discriminated African Americans

d)

All of the above

9.

When was the Ku Klux Klan founded?

a)

1865

b)

1866

c)

1876

d)

1889

10.

In what places was segregation enforced?

a)

Schools

b)

Restaurants

c)

Public transportation

d)

Bathrooms

11.

What were poll taxes?

a)

A fee African Americans had to pay before they could vote

b)

A fee a person had to pay before they could vote

12.

Who believed that African Americans had to earn rights?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Upton Sinclair

13.

Which of the following had a similiar goal as Jim Crow laws?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Black Codes

c)

Anti-slavery Act

14.

Define disenfranchise

a)

To deny a certain group of people

b)

Allow rights

c)

To be fortunate

15.

What Jim Crow Laws were passed to disenfranchise African Americans?

a)

Poll taxes

b)

White primaries

c)

Literacy tests

16.

What was the relocation of African Americans called?

(a)  

17.
According to the map, where were African Americans migrating from?
a)
The East
b)
The North
c)
The South
d)
The Midwest
18.

What was the solution that this African American leader promoted?

a)

Black people should already be given education and rights

b)

Black people had to earn equality

c)

Create a separate economy and society run

19.

Which statement best describes the plan of both African American leaders Booker T Washington and W.E.B Du Bois?

a)

Both demanded instant equality

b)

One of them wanted to earn rights while the other wanted working rights

c)

Both plans shared similar aspects

d)

One of them wanted to gain rights while the other wanted education rights

20.

An organization that believed in white supremacy

(a)  

21.

When did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case take place?

a)

1896

b)

1900

c)

1865

d)

1965

22.

What did Homer Plessy do?

a)

Attacked a white person

b)

Sat in a white-only bus

c)

Went to a white-only restaurant

d)

Sat in a white-only railroad car

23.

What best describes Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Discrimination

b)

Unfair opportunities for people in the South

c)

African Americans treatment

d)

Unfair opportunities for African Americans