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Lesson 1- Segregation and Accommodation Answers

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

A
prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
B
support the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
C
encourage citizens to vote in local elections.
D
discourage African Americans from attending school.
3

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.
4

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

A
racially segregated train cars.
B
scare tactics to enforce Jim Crow laws.
C
poll taxes and literacy tests.
D
“separate but equal” schools.
5

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.
6

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.
7

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.
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

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

A
poll taxes
B
first-class railroad tickets
C
racially segregated hospitals
D
racially segregated schools
10

Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.“[P]rogress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.” In this quotation, Washington is expressing his view that

A
working toward equality is not a realistic goal.
B
the government cannot legislate equality.
C
unconstitutional laws should be challenged in court.
D
only some people deserve to have certain privileges.

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