History 1530 - History of African Americans Since 1877 » Summer 2021 » Chapter 12 Review Quiz

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Question #1
The series of new laws that restricted African American rights in the South became known as. __________.
A.   Jim Crow
B.   Populist
C.   No Child Left Behind
Question #2
In a pseudoscientific theory known as __________, many white Americans believed that black Americans’ plight was the result of their inability to adapt to modern society.
A.   Hedonism
B.   Social Darwinism
C.   Marxism
Question #3
A few northern philanthropists such as __________ founded southern schools with an academic curriculum.
A.   Gandhi
B.   Julius Rosenwald
Question #4
Booker T. Washington’s personal philosophy carried into his public work and was based on the idea that __________.
A.   we are all equal
B.   racial integration and the power of the vote required that black people gain skills that made them indispensable to the southern economy
Question #5
Booker T. Washington praised the black town of __________ as a model of black enterprise and leadership, and he raised money for its continued development.
A.   Dixon, Illinois
B.   Mound Bayou, Mississippi
Question #6
The __________, established in Texas in 1886, represented thousands of black farmers in a dozen states.
A.   Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union
Question #7
Class loyalties uniting white and black farmers and workers formed the basis of the early __________ movement.
A.   loyalist
B.   populist
Question #8
The journalist who became an international figure in the antilynching campaign was __________.
A.   Rosa Parks
B.   Ida B. Wells
Question #9
Booker T. Washington described his plan for African American approaches to conditions in the white South at the __________.
A.   Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition
B.   Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union

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