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Segregation and Accommodation Answers

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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

A
a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality
B
a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to abolish it
C
a civil rights leader who founded a university and was later elected to political office
D
a civil rights leader who was arrested for violating Jim Crow laws and later challenged them in court
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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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