Deck 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation

Question 1

Those who formed the Niagara movement claimed that:

A)Booker T.Washington was right.
B)Blacks should wait things out without doing much.
C)Blacks should protest the curtailment of their rights.
D)Nan Tucker was right.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

It was during the 1650-1700 period when changes in the production of ________ led to the acceptance of Black slavery as the solution to the labor problem.

A)sugar cane
B)corn
C)cotton
D)tobacco

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The following bureau was set up to assist Blacks after the Civil War ended:

A)Blackmen's.
B)Freedmen's.
C)Former slave's.
D)All free.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A major immigration pattern for Blacks occurred after WWI in this direction:

A)Africa to the United States.
B)South to West in the United States.
C)Europe to the United States.
D)South to North in the United States.

Question 5

The U.S.separate but equal doctrine was established through which Supreme Court case?

A)Brown v.Topeka
B)Plessy v.Topeka
C)Plessy v.Ferguson
D)Brown v.Ferguson

Question 6

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on:

A)November 23,1697.
B)July 4,1776.
C)January 1,1863.
D)January 1,1963.

Question 7

Jim Crow laws were legislated at all of the following levels,except:

A)state.
B)federal.
C)city.
D)county.

Question 8

The author of the speech called the Atlanta Compromises was:

A)W.E.B.DuBois.
B)Booker T.Washington.
C)Monroe Trotter.
D)Nan Tucker.

Question 9

Elkins claimed all of the following about the experience of Black slaves,except:

A)Slavery was oppressive.
B)Slaves had a life-albeit at a subsistence level.
C)Slavery reduced Blacks to a subhuman condition.
D)Slave conditions generated extreme subservience and passivity.

Question 10

Southern legislators in post-Civil war United States worked to gain all of the following,except:

A)cooperative national work.
B)removal of federal troops.
C)recapturing state governments.
D)resolving problems without interference.

Question 11

It can be said that the reconstruction governments of post-Civil war United States succeeded in placing ________ ________ in the hands of the common people.

A)federal monies
B)federal pardons
C)political graft
D)political power

Question 12

Efforts to block the Black voters from exercising their rights to vote included a "grandfather clause" which claimed that you could vote then if your grandfather could legally vote in:

A)1860.
B)1863.
C)1890.
D)1904.

Question 13

A new form of southern economic slavery that impoverished Whites and Blacks was called:

A)slavery.
B)indentured servitude.
C)human bondage.
D)sharecropping.

Question 14

The American Colonization Society established which African country for freed Blacks?

A)Zaire (Congo)
B)South Africa
C)Zambia
D)Liberia

Question 15

The Klan's campaign against blacks became increasingly:

A)peaceful over time.
B)sympathetic to Whites,Blacks,and Jews.
C)terrorist.
D)legalized.

Question 16

Legal segregation,with only a few exceptions was established primarily in the:

A)South.
B)North.
C)West.
D)East.

Question 17

According to Bennett (1964)being ________ became a badge of servitude.

A)poor
B)non-native
C)Black
D)Catholic

Question 18

One strong piece of federal legislation which protected "privileges and immunities" of citizens was called the:

A)Thirteenth Amendment.
B)Fourteenth Amendment.
C)Civil Rights Act of 1836.
D)Civil Rights Act of 1905.

Question 19

Presidents Lincoln and Johnson promoted an equality based reconstruction plan which was officially opposed to by ________ ________ in most Southern States.

A)Black codes
B)Black laws
C)segregationist laws
D)segregationist codes

Question 20

In the late 1880s,Whites secretively responded to the changing social order by forming the:

A)KKK.
B)Arian Knights.
C)Whites-only clubs.
D)SORD Clans.

Question 21

The UNIA focused on sending Blacks to:

A)Africa.
B)colleges.
C)the West.
D)Congress.

Question 22

In some ways,Jim Crow proved to me a more efficient system of subordination than slavery
had been.

Question 23

In 1890 Mississippi led the southern states in disenfranchising Black voters.

Question 24

Prosser,Vesey,and Turner were all hanged for slave uprisings.

Question 25

The Black renaissance originated from which city?

A)Atlanta
B)Memphis
C)Chicago
D)Harlem

Question 26

Fogel ended up writing two books on the effects of slavery.

Question 27

Most Blacks were kept from assimilating into the White's world.

Question 28

The KKK's values were integrated into the everyday lives of White Protestants.

Question 29

The tenancy and sharecropping system worked to the disadvantage of practically everyone but
the lenders.

Question 30

Blacks moved in large numbers to northern cities for industrial jobs.

Question 31

Legislation was passed to segregate the southern schools and churches before reconstruction
even ended.

Question 32

A threat to hold a march on Washington,D.C led President Roosevelt to issue order No.8802 which ________ in defense sectors.

A)allocated Black college funds
B)prohibited lynchings
C)prohibited racial discrimination
D)allocated federal monies for segregation reparations

Question 33

Gutman found that slaves rarely lived in marriages or long-term family relationships.

Question 34

The old plantar class in the South was infuriated by the reconstruction plan.

Question 35

The NAACP opposed this Black civil rights leader.

A)Garvey
B)DuBois
C)Taylor
D)King

Question 36

All the Supreme Court Justices supported segregation in the 1896 Plessy v.Ferguson case.

Question 37

During the period between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Depression thousands of Blacks had been:

A)deported.
B)lynched.
C)raped.
D)robbed.

Question 38

The NAACP was formed by all of the following except:

A)W.E.B.DuBois.
B)Whites.
C)Blacks.
D)Booker T.Washington.

Question 39

White and Black Union troops were paid the same wage from the outset.

Question 40

After the Civil War the North divided the southern states into ten military districts.

Question 41

The Supreme Court Case Brown v.Topeka Board of Education was the undoing of separate but
equal legislation set in place by Plessy v.Ferguson.

Question 42

In 1921 Tulsa,Oklahoma,a street brawl occurred between Blacks and Whites where about 50
died.

Question 43

Almost every Black civil rights activist supported the Atlanta Compromise.

Question 44

CORE was a non-violent organization that sought for change.

Question 45

Garvey came under fire exclusively from Whites who felt threatened by his "Back to Africa"
campaign.

Question 46

Blacks lost most of the gains from the Civil War with the Plessy v.Ferguson decision.

Question 47

Researchers claim there is no comparison ever between Blacks and Europeans in terms of
migration patterns.

Question 48

The Lost Nation of Islam was a separationist movement.