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Precursor To Civil Rights
Test Description: Precursor to Civil Rights
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1) Responding to Republican efforts, Southerners passed the Black Codes which allowed:
A
The selling of African Americans into private service
B
The beating of African American workers
C
All the Above
D
The forcing of African Americans into labor contracts
2) Literacy tests were most likely designed to:
A
Prevent African Americans from voting
B
Encourage more civic education among Soutthern voters
C
Suppport efforst in the public schol systems to teache reading
D
Increase voter participation by African Americans
3) African Americans who successfully passed a literacy test most likely:
A
Were still denied the ability to vote
B
Felt encouraged to run for public office
C
All the above
D
Enjoyed a high status among other African Americans and illiterate whites
4) African Americans in the South were most supported in their right to vote by:
A
Strong support by Southern whites for new state constitutions that allowed African American suffrage
B
Key Supreme Court rulings that mandated African American voting
C
Changing social attitudes toward African Americans in the South
D
The presence of federal troops who enforced voting by African Americans
5) The term *Jim Crow* originally grew out of:
A
The Southern governor responsible for the first wave of segregation laws
B
Tales of an African American folk hero popular among slaves
C
Musical shows performed by whites portraying African Americans in a negative manner
D
The name of the chief justice of the Supreme Court who championed segregation
6) Congress responded to oppressive Southern groups like the Ku Klux Klan by:
A
Creating aggressive legislation that punished those depriving African Americans of rights
B
Implementing high profile trials and executions
C
Cooperating with their policies as an efficient way to reestablish order
D
Offering to relocate tens of thousands of African Americans to Northern states
7) Which is true about Freedmen's Bureau schools?
A
Primarily paid for by donations from missionary groups
B
Often placed in the rooms of abandoned plantation houses
C
Bureau used tax payer money first to build grammar schools then universities
D
Initially populated by both white and African American children
8) The result of the Plessy v Ferguson ruling could best be summarized as:
A
It was legal to place African Americans in separate public facilities
B
Segregation of African Americans was to be limited to public transportation facilities
C
The concept of *separate but equal* would apply not only to race but economic status as well
D
Mixed race African Americans who appeared white could use white facilities
9) According to the Black Codes of Mississippi, the punishment for a white person who marries a person of African American decent was
A
Life in prison
B
A small fine
C
Exile outside the state of Mississippi
D
Loss of civic rights normally offered to white citizens
10) Once each year, African Americans in Mississippi were required to:
A
Pay an annual freedman's tax
B
Provide one day of unpaid labor to the community
C
Renew an oath of allegiance to the state
D
Show proof of legal residence and employment in writing
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