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8th Grade Jim C row

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 56mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which statement was most likely a result of the Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Separate schools were established for white children and black children

b)

Hiram Revels was the first black person elected to the US Senate

c)

Anyone born in the United States is a citizen of the country

d)

All males regardless of race were allowed to vote

2.

Who believed in full political, civil and social rights for African Americans?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

3.

What form of discrimination is referred to in the narrative?

a)

Equality

b)

Desegregation

c)

Segregation

d)

Civil Rights

4.

Which set of rules denied African Americans the same rights as white Americans in the late 1800s and into the 1900s?

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Reconstruction Acts

c)

Suffrage Amendments

d)

Civil Rights Acts

5.

Southern states tried to limit the impart of the 13th, 14th, an 15th Amendments by -

a)

passing Jim Crow laws

b)

ending racial discrimination

c)

seceding from the Union

d)

participating in the Civil War

6.

Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

7.

After Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws were put in place to support a system of -

a)

integration

b)

prohibition

c)

immigration

d)

segregation

8.

Which phrase summarizes Jim Crow Laws?

a)

Enhancement of Freedom

b)

Supported Integration

c)

Strategic Desegregation

d)

Enforced Segregation

9.

What prevented former slaves and plantation owners from marrying?

a)

14th Amendment

b)

Freedmen's Bureau

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

d)

Jim Crow Laws

10.

Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?

a)

Eastern Shore

b)

South

c)

North

11.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on 
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
12.
What best describes Jim Crow laws?
a)
better opportunities for women
b)
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
c)
discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
d)
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
13.
Define an immigrant
a)
Person who moves to a country from another country
b)
Person who moves from one state to another state
c)
Person who works in the United States
d)
Person who leaves the United States
14.

How did the ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson relate to the 14th amendment?

a)

It said that separate but equal was unfair

b)

It created laws that separated blacks and whites.

c)

It created laws that desegregated blacks and whites forever

d)

It created laws to unify America

15.
Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.
a)
Fraternal Order of Elks
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freemasons
d)
Illuminati
16.
Whites Only Water Fountain
.... this sign represents what laws in the South
a)
Racial Rules
b)
Lincoln Laws
c)
Black Codes 
d)
Jim Crow Laws
17.
Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 
a)
Latinos
b)
African-Americans 
c)
Native Americans
d)
Asians
18.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on 
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
19.
What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?
a)
Redskins vs Giants
b)
Aylor vs Byrd
c)
Brown vs Board of Education
d)
Plessy vs Ferguson
20.
1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendent
c)
15th Amendment
21.
1868, makes all persons born in the United States—including former slaves— citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws. 
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
22.
1870, grates voting rights to all men regardless of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
23.

Why did Louisiana settlers need to develop strong relationships with Native American tribes?

a)
To rely on their knowledge and survival skills
b)
To convert them to Christianity
c)
To establish military alliances
d)
To trade goods and resources
24.
What was Reconstruction?
a)
equal treatment for all people
b)
the forced separation of races
c)
a farmer shares part of his crop to pay for land
d)
the period of time after the Civil War
25.

Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

16th Amendment

26.
What best describes Jim Crow laws?
a)
better opportunities for women
b)
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
c)
discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
d)
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
27.

African Americans who left the South and migrated to the west to find a better life were:

a)

Exodusters

b)

Indentured Servants

c)

Freedmen

d)

Settlers

28.

The legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences is

a)

Integration

b)

Conflagration

c)

Confederation

d)

Segregation

29.

These were used to take away the rights of African Americans in the South after the Civil War.

a)

Amendments

b)

White Codes

c)

Black Codes

d)

Civil Rights

30.

This group used fear & violence to prevent African Americans from voting in the South following Reconstruction

a)

Black Codes

b)

Ku Klux Klan

c)

Radical Republicans

d)

Carpetbaggers

31.

Who was considered a leader of the Great Exodus/Exodusters?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Benjamin (Pap) Singleton

d)

Jim Crow

32.

Which BEST describes the relationship between Native Americans and settlers?

a)

They taught different skills and cooperated with each other.

b)

They didn’t force each other to change.

c)

They forced Native Americans onto reservations and to become farmers.

d)

None of these.

33.

Which description explains the Dawes Severalty Policy?

a)

Homes and businesses were set up for Native Americans.

b)

Native Americans were pushed across the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears.

c)

Native Americans were being pushed onto smaller and smaller reservations.

d)

The tribal lands of the reservation were divided into farms for individual Native American families.

34.

Which description explains the Dawes Severalty Policy?

a)

Homes and businesses were set up for Native Americans.

b)

Native Americans were pushed across the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears.

c)

Native Americans were being pushed onto smaller and smaller reservations.

d)

The tribal lands of the reservation were divided into farms for individual Native American families.

35.

Which description explains the Indian Removal Act?

a)

Homes and businesses were set up for Native Americans.

b)

The Act pushed the Native Americans across the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears.

c)

Native Americans were being pushed onto smaller and smaller reservations.

d)

The Act took the tribal lands of the reservation and divided it up into farms for individual Native American families.

36.

Which description explains the Indian Removal Act?

a)

Homes and businesses were set up for Native Americans.

b)

The Act pushed the Native Americans across the Mississippi River to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in the 1830s during the Trail of Tears.

c)

Native Americans were being pushed onto smaller and smaller reservations.

d)

The Act took the tribal lands of the reservation and divided it up into farms for individual Native American families.

37.

What is being described?

Seven hundred men attacked a peaceful village, and many Native Americans were killed, including women and children.

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of Little Big Horn

c)

Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce Tribe

38.

What is being described?

Seven hundred men attacked a peaceful village, and many Native Americans were killed, including women and children.

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of Little Big Horn

c)

Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce Tribe

39.

What is being described?

Three hundred Native Americans (men, women, and children) were killed as they tried to escape the reservation, even though they were trying to surrender their weapons.

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of Little Big Horn

c)

Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce Tribe

40.

What is being described?

Three hundred Native Americans (men, women, and children) were killed as they tried to escape the reservation, even though they were trying to surrender their weapons.

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of Little Big Horn

c)

Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce Tribe

41.

What is being described?

General Custer, who died in battle, and the US Army attacked Native Americans who refused to leave the reservation when gold was found there.

a)

Sand Creek Massacre

b)

Battle of Little Big Horn

c)

Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

Chief Joseph and Nez Perce Tribe

42.

Which of the following is NOT an example of how reformers forced Native Americans to change?

a)

  1. Many Native American farms failed because the land was poor and the Native Americans did not know how to farm.

b)

  1. Poverty, starvation, and sadness occurred on the reservations.

c)

  1. A new federal policy divided the tribal lands of the reservation into farms for individual Native American families.

d)

Native Americans were not forced to change.

43.
Abolitionists demanded.....
a)
immediate freeing of slaves
b)
freedom to practice their religion
c)
equal rights for women
44.
Abolitionists believed that....
a)
slavery should end gradually so as not to hurt southern economy
b)
slavery should be legal only in the south
c)
slavery was morally wrong, cruel, inhumane and undemocratic and slaves should be freed immediately
45.
Which of the following was NOT an abolitionist leader?
a)
William Lloyd Garrison
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Patrick Henry
d)
Harriet Tubman
46.
This abolitionist leader, a runaway slave, gave many moving speeches against slavery.  He once told his audience, "I appear this evening as a robber.  I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them"
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
William Lloyd Garrison
c)
Frederick Douglass
47.

He helped found the NAACP.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

W.E.B. DuBois

48.

Banned slavery

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

49.

Gave African American men the right to vote

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

d)

Civil Rights Act of 1866

50.

Separate but equal was established by

a)

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

b)

Plessy v Ferguson

c)

The Freeman's Bureau

d)

The NAACP

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