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Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the "separate but equal" doctrine?

A
Jim Crow laws were created to undermine this doctrine by requiring racial integration for public facilities.
B
Jim Crow laws were created to protest this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for some public facilities.
C
Jim Crow laws were created to support this doctrine by requiring equal public facilities for African Americans and whites.
D
Jim Crow laws were created to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities.
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Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

A
a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality
B
a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to abolish it
C
a civil rights leader who founded a university and was later elected to political office
D
a civil rights leader who was arrested for violating Jim Crow laws and later challenged them in court
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In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect

A
voting rights.
B
civil rights.
C
political rights.
D
social rights.
4

Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted

A
in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
B
in the South starting in the early 1800s
C
nationwide starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
D
nationwide starting in the early 1800s.
5

Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of

A
discrimination against African Americans.
B
integration of facilities in the South.
C
segregation of educational facilities.
D
separation of the North and South.
6

In Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that “separate but equal” violated his rights under the

A
First Amendment.
B
Thirteenth Amendment.
C
Fourteenth Amendment.
D
Fifteenth Amendment.
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Booker T. Washington believed that African American accommodation to segregation should be accompanied by

A
resistance to laws that discriminated against African Americans.
B
hard work, self-improvement, and patience.
C
insistence on support from the government.
D
peaceful challenges to daily injustices.
8

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech."In the great leap from slavery to freedom...the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands...we shall prosper...as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor."According to this quotation, Washington believed that

A
hard work had its own kind of dignity.
B
hard work was more important than education.
C
people could not prosper from common labor.
D
people had to prosper in order to achieve freedom.
9

Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to

A
demand that it be made illegal immediately.
B
adapt to it as they worked to gain equality.
C
demand that it be made illegal gradually.
D
ignore it whenever it was encountered.
10

Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually

A
failed due to lack of public support.
B
scaled back despite heavy financing.
C
failed due to its support for segregation.
D
grew from a small school into a university.

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