McCarthyism

Question 1

Read the quote by A. Philip Randolph and answer the question below. Which of the following ideas are contained in the quote?Check all of the boxes that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: African Americans have power if they join together.; C: Pressure can bring about change.

Question 2

Which of these statements does the graph support?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: In the battle, African Americans proved their worthiness to skeptical white soldiers.

Question 3

Select the best word or phrase to complete each sentence below.During its earliest years, professional baseball was .

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: not segregated

Question 4

Think about the act of breaking baseball’s decades-old color line and challenging the system of segregation that existed in many areas of American life. From which sources would you expect Robinson to receive criticism and abuse?Share your opinion by selecting any answers that match your ideas.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: Dodgers teammates; B: opponents; C: white fans; D: African American fans; E: umpires and other officials; F: the media

Question 5

When opposing players threatened to strike because of Jackie Robinson, National League President Ford Frick responded. Which of the following statements best summarizes Frick’s view?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: He was going to support integration no matter what people’s reactions were.

Question 6

What issue was at the heart of Sweatt v. Painter?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: Was the separate African American law school equal to the white school?

Question 7

Read the Supreme Court’s ruling to the left. What does it suggest about Texas’s African American and white law schools?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: Separate facilities for African Americans and whites may be unequal in quality.

Question 8

The segregation of professional baseball was enforced by.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: informal agreement

Question 9

After the segregation of the major leagues, African American players .

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: played in Negro leagues

McCarthyism Answers

More from this Course

TRY EDGENUITY HACKS