WorksheetsUnit 1 Chapter 2 JBM 25-26
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 17mins
What is portrayed in this picture? Select the two correct answers.
racial segregation in public spaces
intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan
effects of Jim Crow laws
political disenfranchisement
use of poll taxes and literacy tests
Use the quotation to answer the question. “If the civil and political rights of both races be equal, one cannot be inferior to the other civilly or politically. If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.” —Justice Brown, Plessy v. Ferguson What practice is referred to in this excerpt? (8.9.i)
public education
separate but equal
granting citizenship
political disenfranchisement
Which was a result of the 1898 revisions to the Louisiana Constitution? (8.12.i)
interracial relationships were deemed illegal
The time period known as "Reconstruction" was over.
Poll taxes and bans on segregated facilities were removed.
The state legislature was able to enforce segregation in public facilities.
What was the primary purpose of the first Historically Black Colleges and Universities? (8.9.h)
to counter the discrimination in the American education system
to increase the number of African American medical doctors in America
to encourage young African American students to enter trades
to preserve African American culture
What did Booker T. Washington believe was the best way for African Americans to gain equality?
ending African American voter suppression
pursuing educational and economic opportunities
forming organizations that championed civil rights
amending state constitutions to include equal rights
On what point do the authors of these passages disagree?
how to achieve the best economic opportunities
how to educate young African Americans
how to win legal cases regarding racism
how to achieve racial equality
Use the quotation to answer the question. “No male person who was on January 1st, 1867, or at any date prior thereto, entitled to vote under the Constitution or statutes of any State of the United States, wherein he then resided, and no son or grandson of any such person not less than twenty-one years of age at the date of the adoption of this Constitution, and no male person of foreign birth, who was naturalized prior to the first day of January, 1898, shall be denied the right to register and vote in this State by reason of his failure to possess the educational or property qualifications prescribed by this Constitution.” —Louisiana Constitution of 1898 What is the name for this type of law?
poll tax
literacy test
grandfather clause
property ownership
A Brief History of Jim Crow: Jim Crow laws affected life in the South after Reconstruction ended by enforcing racial segregation.
They enforced racial segregation.
They promoted racial equality.
They abolished all forms of segregation.
They improved voting rights for all.
Use your social studies knowledge and Plessy v Ferguson to answer the question. Which statement best explains the effect of the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)? (worth 1 point)
A. Affirmative action programs were ruled unconstitutional
B. Minorities were not allowed to attend schools with whites.
C. Minorities were not allowed to join the military.
D. Poll taxes in federal elections were ruled to not be fair.
Which statement best explains the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
encourage African Americans to obtain a college education
force Southern leaders to provide high-paying jobs to African Americans
limit African American rights and liberties in the South
limit rights and liberties of all races in the south
Which statement best describes the legal precedent established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
A. All men are created equal
B. Black versus white
C. Segregation of all
D. Separate but equal
What did the 14th Amendment promise African Americans?
The right to own land
Full citizenship and equal protection under the law
The right to free education
Freedom from paying taxes
What system kept many African Americans in poverty after Reconstruction?
Tenant farming
Industrialization
Sharecropping
Carpetbagging
Give an example of a Jim Crow law in education.
African Americans could not vote in school board elections
Black and white students had to use separate textbooks
African Americans had to pay a school tax
Only white teachers could teach history
What does “separate but equal” mean?
Everyone used the same facilities
Segregation was allowed if facilities were supposedly equal
African Americans could not go to college
Schools had to share resources equally
Who argued that African Americans should demand civil rights immediately?
Ida B. Wells
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
W. E. B. Du Bois
Who said African Americans should “cast down your bucket where you are” and focus on work and trade?
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Martin Luther King Jr.
Marcus Garvey
What group used violence and intimidation to keep African Americans from voting?
Freedmen’s Bureau
Ku Klux Klan
Union Army
NAACP
What organization was founded in 1909 to fight segregation and discrimination?
National Urban League
NAACP
Black Panther Party
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Who campaigned against lynching and helped found the National Association of Colored Women?
Mary Church Terrell
Ida B. Wells
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Which answer choice BEST describes the practice shown in this illustration? (SS8H7)
Racial violence
Intergration
Disenfranchisement
Jim Crow Laws
Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised?
The temperance movement.
The passage of Jim Crow laws.
The passage of antitrust legislation.
The conservation movement.
