Segregation and Accommodation - Quiz Quiz

Question 1

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

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C: racially segregated train cars.

Question 2

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

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D: prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Question 3

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

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C: poll taxes

Question 4

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

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D: in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.

Question 5

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

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C: the government cannot legislate equality.

Question 6

In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect

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A: social rights.

Question 7

Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896. “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.” The views Harlan expressed in this quotation were

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A: later adopted by the Supreme Court in the  Brown v. Board of Education  decision.

Question 8

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

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A: Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 9

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

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

Question 10

Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of

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B: discrimination against African Americans.

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