Segregation and Accommodation Answers

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

A
voting rights.
B
civil rights.
C
political rights.
D
social rights.
5

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
6

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.
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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

A
later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
B
similar to the views of the other justices, who ruled against Homer Plessy.
C
immediately adopted by southern states to justify the end of Jim Crow laws.
D
used to justify the “separate but equal” doctrine and continued segregation.
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Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted

A
in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
B
in the South starting in the early 1800s
C
nationwide starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
D
nationwide starting in the early 1800s.
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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.
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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?

A
He believed that in a merit-based society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality.
B
He believed that in a merit-based society, the government would enforce racial equality.
C
He believed that in a merit-based society, it was necessary to actively challenge segregation laws.
D
He believed that in a merit-based society, only people of certain race could succeed.

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