Question

1. Which statement is most accurate concerning the Jim Crow Laws?
A. They dated from the time before the Civil War.
B. They dated from the decades that followed Reconstruction.
C. Both blacks and whites approved of these laws.
D. They focused on improving the economy of the South.
2. Booker T. Washington believed that his fellow black Americans needed to
A. rely on new laws to remedy the wrongs which they suffered.
B. rely on a popular revolution to remedy the wrongs which they suffered.
C. rely on help from outsiders, including foreigners, to remedy the wrongs which they suffered
D. rely on themselves to remedy the wrongs from which they suffered.
3-"Separate but equal meant that
A. racial segregation was legal.
B. racial segregation was illegal.
C. racial segregation was not worthy of consideration.
D. racial segregation did not exist.
4. What did the Dred Scott case and Plessy v. Ferguson have in common?
A. They were both challenges to segregation.
B. They were both about the rights of African Americans to education.
C. They both upheld Jim Crow laws.
D. They were both Supreme Court cases that set back the cause of rights for African Americans.
5. Imagine that it is December 31, 1899. You are a journalist who has just heard W.E.B. Du Bois argue that African Americans must become more active to win their God-given rights. Give your opinion on whether this approach will ever succeed in the state of Georgia.

Write quesiton 5 in the style of a 13.3-year-old serious male/boy who writes only 1.5 sentences, which focuses on the answers.

Answer 1

1. B
2. D
3. A
4. D

5. I think Du Bois's push for active protest could win some rights if northern supporters, the courts, and organized Black leaders keep pressing the issue. But in Georgia, with strong Jim Crow laws and most white people resisting change...