WorksheetsAfrican American Studies Unit 3 Quiz #2
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
During Reconstruction what was one main purpose of the federal government’s actions?
To reintegrate former Confederate states and protect the rights of freed African Americans
To promote industrialization in the South
To establish new trade routes
To expand westward territories
Which amendment officially abolished slavery in 1865?
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment
What key principle did the Fourteenth Amendment establish?
Birthright citizenship and equal protection
Separation of church and state
Freedom of speech
Right to bear arms
Which amendment guaranteed voting rights for Black men?
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
Approximately how many African Americans served in public office during Reconstruction?
Nearly 2,000
Over 10,000
Fewer than 500
Around 500
What was the primary function of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
To assist formerly enslaved people transition to citizenship
To redistribute land among white farmers
To enforce segregation laws
To draft new state constitutions
How did the Freedmen’s Bureau help reunite Black families after emancipation?
By assisting in finding lost kin and legalizing marriages
By issuing new surnames
By relocating families to the North
By organizing mass family reunions exclusively
Black Codes were enacted during Presidential Reconstruction to:
Restrict the rights and labor of African Americans
Promote equal employment opportunities
Provide free education for freedmen
Encourage Black entrepreneurship
Which labor system required freed people to work a share of their crops to their landowners?
Sharecropping
Convict leasing
Indentured servitude
Apprenticeship programs
What did Special Field Orders No. 15 issued by General Sherman aim to do?
Redistribute land to newly freed African American families
Establish Black-only schools
Provide financial reparations
Create employment through public works
Who revoked Special Field Orders No. 15 returning confiscated lands to former owners?
President Andrew Johnson
President Ulysses S. Grant
President Abraham Lincoln
President Rutherford B. Hayes
Which Supreme Court decision established the doctrine of 'separate but equal'?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
McCulloch v. Maryland
What measures were used after Reconstruction to disenfranchise Black voters?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
Direct federal suppression of votes
Black voter registration drives
Military occupation of Southern polling places
The term 'Jim Crow' refers to:
Laws enforcing racial segregation in the South
A popular Black folk song
A movement to integrate schools
A post-Civil War economic policy
Which period is often called the nadir of American race relations?
The era from the end of Reconstruction until WWII
The Civil Rights Movement
The Progressive Era
The New Deal period
In 1919 what was the 'Red Summer' marked by?
Widespread racial violence and urban riots
Economic prosperity in Black communities
The beginning of the Great Migration
The establishment of Black schools
Which event in 1921 destroyed a prosperous African American community known as 'Black Wall Street'?
The Tulsa race massacre
The Atlanta Race Riot
The Chicago Race Riot
The Detroit Uprising
What does W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of 'double consciousness' describe?
An internal conflict from having two conflicting identities
The simultaneous pursuit of education and labor
The dual roles of Black men in politics
A split between rural and urban lifestyles
In the context of Du Bois’s work what does the metaphor 'the color line' signify?
The persistent segregation and discrimination based on race
A natural boundary between states
A separation between economic classes
A legal distinction between free and enslaved people
Which leader advocated for industrial education as a means of economic advancement after emancipation?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Frederick Douglass
Which intellectual championed a liberal arts education and a civil rights agenda for Black Americans?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Ida B. Wells
Which Black woman leader helped establish the National Association of Colored Women?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells
How did family reunions serve African American communities post-emancipation?
They reconnected separated kin and celebrated cultural heritage
They enforced new marriage laws
They were solely social events without political meaning
They replaced traditional religious gatherings
What role did Black churches play in the postbellum South?
Centers for worship, organization, and cultural expression
Exclusive places of business
Institutions for enforcing segregation
Training centers for military service
How did the Black press contribute to African American communities during Reconstruction and afterward?
By documenting community life and protesting racial injustice
By endorsing political candidates uncritically
By promoting assimilation into white culture
By focusing exclusively on sports
Which entrepreneur became the first female millionaire in the United States?
Madam C.J. Walker
Oprah Winfrey
Rosa Parks
Mary McLeod Bethune
What was the main purpose of establishing HBCUs after the Civil War?
To provide higher education to African Americans
To segregate students by race
To serve as vocational training centers only
To function as military academies
Which educational models were prominent in early HBCUs?
Liberal arts and vocational-industrial
Only religious studies
Only agricultural training
Only legal studies
The Harlem Renaissance is best described as:
A flourishing of Black literary and artistic life in the 1920s and 1930s
A political revolution led by African Americans
A nationwide educational reform movement
A series of legal battles for civil rights
How did African American photographers like James Van Der Zee challenge racist stereotypes?
By capturing dignified, authentic images of Black life
By focusing only on negative depictions
By ignoring everyday life and concentrating on landscapes
By exclusively documenting segregated institutions
