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WorksheetsCh. 13-5 The Rise of Segregation
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Match the following year to the event in history.
15th Amendment is ratified: right to vote cannot be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
1870
Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in public accomodations.
1875
Supreme Court decision overturns Civil Rights Act
1883
Mississippi institutes poll tax and literacy tax.
1890
Homer Plessy is arrested for riding in a "whites only" railcar.
1892
Formerly enslaved African Americans who moved to Kansas in 1879 were known as _______
sharecroppers.
migrant workers.
homesteaders.
Exodusters.
The primary difficulty of sharecropping was that the farmers ______
did not have farming experience.
were constantly in debt.
had to pay cash for rent.
could not find enough land to farm.
How did Democratic leaders try to discourage poor white farmers from joining with African Americans in the Populist movement?
by appealing to their need to retain a Democratic lock on the Southern states
by offering free land to white farmers in exchange for their votes
by warning that such a move would return the region to Reconstruction days
by forbidding those who were Populists to vote in elections
How did Southern states erode African American voting rights?
by imposing poll taxes and literacy tests
by stationing police outside of polling booths
by preventing African Americans from entering the polls
by enacting laws that said only white citizens could vote
The laws passed by Southern states that enforced discrimination based on race were known as _______
Plessy laws.
Segregation laws.
New Slave laws.
Jim Crow laws.
What was the Supreme Court's ruling when it overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
that private organizations could segregate the races
that states had the right to enact laws that discriminated against African Americans
that the races were equal and must be treated equally everywhere
that African Americans no longer had the right to vote
In 1892, Ida B. Wells launched a campaign aimed at _______
ending segregation.
easing voting restrictions for African Americans.
ending the numerous lynchings in the South.
amending the Constitution to end discrimination based on race.
How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differ in their approach to Civil Rights?
Washington wanted to compromise politically while Du Bois did not.
Washington demanded an immediate end to segregation while Du Bois promoted patience.
Du Bois promoted violence against whites while Washington called for peace.
Washington concentrated on voting while Du Bois concentrated on education.
Who led a boycott against department stores in Washington, D.C., that refused to serve African Americans?
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Mary Church Terrell
What phrase did the Supreme Court use when it legalized segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?
that whites were "superior and different"
that African Americans could be "separate but equal"
that African Americans were "equal in the eyes of the law"
that the Constitution provided "no civil rights protections under the law"
(a) , a leader of a new generation of African American activists born after the Civil War, argued that African Americans had to demand their rights. (name of a person)
In 1892 an African American named Homer (a) challenged a Louisiana law that forced him to ride in a separate railroad car from whites.
In the mid-1870s, a former enslaved person named Benjamin “Pap” Singleton helped set in motion...
the spread of vocational education for African Americans.
a nationwide campaign for civil rights.
the establishment of the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance.
a mass migration of African Americans.
To help white voters avoid literacy tests and poll taxes, Southern state introduced the (a) . This allowed any man to vote if he had an ancestor who could vote in 1867.
