Early Civil Rights Movements

Question 1

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

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adapt to it as they worked to gain equality.

Question 2

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

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Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities.

Question 3

Booker T. Washington believed that African American accommodation to segregation should be accompanied by

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hard work, self-improvement, and patience.

Question 4

Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

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a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality

Question 5

Which of the following directly violated the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

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poll taxes

Question 6

Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of

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discrimination against African Americans.

Question 7

During the Jim Crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy tests in order to

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prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Question 8

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

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Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 9

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.“Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.” How does this quotation relate to Washington's theory of accommodation?

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He believed that in a merit-based society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality.

Question 10

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

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grew from a small school into a university.

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