History 1530 - History of African Americans Since 1877 » Summer 2021 » Chapter 14 Review Quiz

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Question #1
W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP took the position on the World War I that black Americans should __________.
A.   “close ranks” and support a patriotic effort in the hopes that it would earn them respect and legal equality at home
B.   launch a widespread campaign of civil disobedience at home to bring about civil rights
C.   boycott the military until it agreed to integrated units and black officers
D.   unite with people of color around the world to destroy international imperialism
Question #2
The Great Migration was heavily influenced by __________.
A.   the opening of previously undeveloped farmland in the Ohio Valley
B.   expulsion decrees from southern states
C.   poor economic conditions in the South combined with job opportunities in the North
D.   widespread calls by black leaders for a large-scale abandonment of the South
Question #3
Between World War I and 1930, an estimated __________ black people departed the South.
A.   2,000,000
B.   4,000,000
C.   250,000
D.   500,000
Question #4
In 1915, the __________ came alive again, this time as a national organization dedicated to targeting blacks, Jews, and Catholics.
A.   National Urban League
B.   Ku Klux Klan
C.   National Association of Club Women
D.   NAACP
Question #5
A rift developed between Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois because __________.
A.   Garvey envisioned separate black nations in many locales across the world
B.   Du Bois believed that Garvey was in the pay of the Department of Justice
C.   Du Bois advocated a more radical Pan-African agenda than Garvey
D.   Garvey rejected Pan-Africanism as a threat to his integrationist stance
Question #6
While W. E. B. Du Bois found a receptive following among African American intellectuals, Garvey’s base of support was to be found in __________.
A.   poor black communities
B.   the growing black middle class
C.   the American South
D.   industrial cities of the Midwest
Question #7
The NAACP won an important Supreme Court ruling against all-white juries in __________.
A.   Nixon v. Herndon (1927)
B.   Buchanan v. Warley (1917)
C.   State v. Young (1919)
D.   Moore v. Dempsey (1923)
Question #8
As black Americans migrated to the cities, upper-class white Americans __________.
A.   migrated to Canada and parts of Europe
B.   fled to the suburbs
C.   lobbied Congress for residential restrictions
D.   bought up urban properties to market to black families
Question #9
In 1927, the black writer __________ published Infants of Spring, a bitter satire of the Harlem Renaissance.
A.   Claude McKay
B.   Zora Neale Hurston
C.   Paul Robeson
D.   Wallace Thurman
Question #10
With black Americans often divided between their allegiances to the Republican Party and their attraction to Democratic Party policies toward wage-earners, the __________ began to make inroads among black working people in the 1920s.
A.   Progressive Party
B.   Universal Negro Improvement Association
C.   Communist Party
D.   Socialist Party

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