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