WorksheetsSS8H7bc African American Rights in the New South
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 13mins
"Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." - Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise Speech, 1895
Which prominent Civil Rights leader would have disagreed MOST with Washington's approach to solving the problem of racial inequality in the south?
Marcus Garvey
W. E. B. DuBois
Frederick Douglass
George Washington Carver
Which group was founded by W.E.B. DuBois and others in 1909 to promote equal treatment of Blacks in America?
The Black Panthers
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
What was the historical significance of the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson?
The case eliminated the power of suffrage in states in the area of civil rights.
The case abolished the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
The case provided for a precedent and legal basis for segregation.
The case provided for voting rights for all Americans.
The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that
all children receive permission to attend the same school.
whites receive higher quality facilities and services than blacks.
the segregation laws did not spread outside of the Southern states.
the separate facilities or services for both races be of equal quality.
Which example of a Jim Crow law is being described?
- Forced people to pay before they voted
- Designed to limit African American voting rights
- Usually enforced in addition to literacy tests
poll tax
voter ID
fingerprinting
grandfather clause
What do these topics all have in common?
- Grandfather Clause
- Poll Tax
- Literacy Test
- White Primary
citizenship
Jim Crow Laws
disenfranchisement
equal rights before the law
What was the Jim Crow system?
a system of economic struggle before World War I
a system of racial segregation in the North after the Civil War
a system of racial segregation in the South after the Civil War
a system of African American slavery in America before the Civil War
Who is being described?
- Historian, civil rights activist, author
- First African American to earn a PhD from Harvard in 1895
- Co-founder of NAACP in 1909
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herndon
John Hope
Who is being described?
Educator, orator, and author
Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881
Famous "Atlanta Compromise" speech in 1895
Urged moderation in the civil rights struggle
Born a slave in Virginia
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herndon
John Hope
· Born a slave in Walton County in 1858
· Owned and operated 3 barbershops in Atlanta in 1904
· Started Atlanta Life Insurance Association
· Atlanta's first African American millionaire
All of the phrases are describing
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Alonzo Herndon
John Hope
Things like Jim Crow laws, disenfranchisement, and groups like the Ku Klux Klan led to which result in the south after the Civil War?
an increase in slavery
an increase in racial violence
more jobs for blacks in the south
decrease in the use of sharecropping
What was NOT a way of disenfranchisement?
Poll tax
Literacy test
White Primary
15th Amendment
Who is this man that was arrested in Louisiana for riding in the "White's Only" section of a railcar.
Plessy Johnson
John Furguson
Homer Furguson
Homer Plessy
A test given to persons to prove they can read and write before being allowed to register to vote
Grandfather Clause
White Primary
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
True or False.
Segregation included:
•separate schools
•public transportation
•water fountains and bathrooms
•graveyards and Bibles used to swear on in courts
True
False
Why did Homer Plessy sit in the railcar?
He was tired and couldn't walk any farther.
He wanted to challenge Louisiana's segregation laws.
He did not know what he was doing.
What is the meaning of disenfranchisement?
ability to vote as much as you want
right to build as many restaurant franchises as you want.
deny the right to vote
Supreme Court case that established the separate but equal doctrine thus promoting segregation
Worcester v. Georgia
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Tinker v. Des Moines
