Roosevelt's Square Deal

Question 1

W. E. B. Du Bois was a sociologist and activist who:

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fought for the political and social rights of African Americans.

Question 2

Which best describes the purpose of the Niagara Movement?

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to support social and political rights for African Americans

Question 3

Why did W. E. B. Du Bois call Marcus Garvey “the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race in America”?

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Garvey’s views promoted racial separation.

Question 4

Which of the following best describes one reason that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed?

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to stop violence against African Americans

Question 5

Which best describes the outcome of the 1913 case Guinn v. U.S.?

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The case was a victory for the NAACP because it overturned a law that would have limited African American voting rights.

Question 6

Which of the following is one way that Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans could achieve equality?

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through education and learning job skills

Question 7

In the early 1900s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People strongly urged the federal government to

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punish lynch mobs.

Question 8

Read the quotation by W. E. B. Du Bois.“We refuse to allow the impression to remain that the Negro-American assents to inferiority, is submissive under oppression and apologetic before insults.” In this quotation, Du Bois disagrees with Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist approach because Du Bois believes that

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working toward equality for all is an important pursuit.

Question 9

When Marcus Garvey was in his twenties, he toured Central America and witnessed the oppression of migrant workers, an experience that

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inspired his support of Pan Africanism and his political activism.

Question 10

Who called for a revival of the abolitionist spirit when he joined the Niagara Movement?

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William English Walling

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