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WorksheetsAfrican American Struggles
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who was Jim Crow?
An abolitionist
A president
Racist persona
A person against slavery
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that enforced freedom within the black community
Supported slavery
Separate but equal
Laws that legalized racial segregation
When were laws enforced?
(Check all that apply)
1950
1860
1850
1870
What were black codes?
Separation of different racial groups
Laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans
Codes African Americans used to escape slavery
All of the above
What jobs were common for African Americans during this time period?
Farming
Cashiers
Industrial workers
Sharecropping
What is sharecropping?
A system African Americans used to crop
A landlord allows a tenant to use the crop in exchange for a share of the land
Not a form of slavery
A landlord allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop
What was the meaning of Separate but Equal?
Laws created to prevent African Americans from having opportunities
Legalized racial segregation
As long as there were equal facilities it was okay to separate them by race
All of the above
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A racist group of people who did black face to depict African Americans and their culture
Southern Democrats who wanted to restore white supremacy in the South
A white supremacist group who mainly discriminated African Americans
All of the above
When was the Ku Klux Klan founded?
1865
1866
1876
1889
In what places was segregation enforced?
Schools
Restaurants
Public transportation
Bathrooms
What were poll taxes?
A fee African Americans had to pay before they could vote
A fee a person had to pay before they could vote
Who believed that African Americans had to earn rights?
Abraham Lincoln
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Upton Sinclair
Which of the following had a similiar goal as Jim Crow laws?
13th Amendment
Black Codes
Anti-slavery Act
Define disenfranchise
To deny a certain group of people
Allow rights
To be fortunate
What Jim Crow Laws were passed to disenfranchise African Americans?
Poll taxes
White primaries
Literacy tests
What was the relocation of African Americans called?
(a)
What was the solution that this African American leader promoted?
Black people should already be given education and rights
Black people had to earn equality
Create a separate economy and society run
Which statement best describes the plan of both African American leaders Booker T Washington and W.E.B Du Bois?
Both demanded instant equality
One of them wanted to earn rights while the other wanted working rights
Both plans shared similar aspects
One of them wanted to gain rights while the other wanted education rights
An organization that believed in white supremacy
(a)
When did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case take place?
1896
1900
1865
1965
What did Homer Plessy do?
Attacked a white person
Sat in a white-only bus
Went to a white-only restaurant
Sat in a white-only railroad car
What best describes Jim Crow Laws?
Discrimination
Unfair opportunities for people in the South
African Americans treatment
Unfair opportunities for African Americans
