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Booker T. Washington & WEB Dubois

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?
a)
 Booker T. Washington
b)
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
c)

W.E.B. Du Bois                               

d)
William Lloyd Douglas
2.
Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
a)
William Lloyd Douglas
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
George Washington     
d)
Booker T. Washington
3.
The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?
a)
Assimilation                        
b)
Civil Rights
c)
Segregation         
d)
Desegregation
4.
According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?
a)
Learning skills and trades              
b)
Holding protests and strikes
c)
Attending meetings and elections
d)
Working longer and harder
5.

Which African American leader believed African Americans had already earned the rights of whites and demanded that they should be treated as equals?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Benjamin Singleton

6.

Jim Crow Laws did what?

a)

Disenfranchised African Americans and segregate society

b)

Disenfranchised wealthy white planters and segregated society

c)

Forced Republicans to become sharecroppers

d)

Led to an increase in voting activity among African Americans

7.

Disenfranchisement

a)

Process of having your rights taken away

b)

Process of having more rights given to you

c)

Process of immigrating to the United States

d)

15th Amendment

8.

Which Civil Rights activist is associated with vocational education?

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Booker T. Washington

9.

Why was Booker T. Washington's speech in Atlanta considered a compromise?

a)

Many critics felt like he wasn't challenging southern racism enough

b)

Many critics felt like he was attacking segregation too much in the South

c)

Many critics felt that he should return to Tuskegee Institute

d)

Many critics wanted him to go North to get help from wealthy philanthropists

10.

Who was Booker T. Washington's biggest critic?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Andrew Carnegie

11.

How would African Americans gain equality according to Du Bois?

a)

By attacking Jim Crow laws and practices that inhibited black suffrage

b)

By promoting a Back to Africa strategy

c)

By supporting segregation

d)

By advocating for vocational training

12.

Which civil rights leader formed the Niagara Movement and helped establish the NAACP?

a)

W.E.B Du Bois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Marcus Garvey

13.
In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to receive a doctoral degree from the University of
a)

Ohio State

b)
Harvard
c)
Buffalo
d)
Oxford
14.

Why did Booker T. Washington believe it was important to learn a trade?

a)

It allowed black people to own their own business.

b)

It guaranteed immediate civil rights for black people.

c)

It made black people more employable to white business owners.

d)

It offered a simple way for black people to take out government loans.

15.

Which of the following best describes W.E.B. Du Bois’s approach to civil rights?

a)

give and take between races

b)

gradual attainment of civil rights

c)

complete civil rights immediately

d)

economic equality with social segregation

16.

Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington’s approach to civil rights?

a)

compromise and patience

b)

persistence and noncompliance

c)

education reform and voting rights

d)

non-violent protest and political action

17.

Who established the Tuskegee Institute?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

The Peanut Man

18.

What was the significance of Booker T. Washington's speech at the Atlanta Exposition?

a)

It advocated for the immediate end of racial segregation and discrimination.

b)

It outlined his philosophy of racial accommodation and called for economic cooperation between African Americans and white Americans.

c)

It proposed a plan for African Americans to establish their own separate society.

d)

It called for the complete assimilation of African Americans into white society.

19.

What was the main goal of the Atlanta Compromise?

a)

Promote racial harmony and economic progress for African Americans

b)

Maintain the status quo of racial segregation

c)

Achieve political equality for African Americans

d)

Encourage African Americans to return to Africa

20.

WEB DuBois believed in

a)

African-Americans needed to be educated and involved in politics

b)

believed job skills were most important

c)

being a slave was fun

d)

having a job was not important