Deck 13: The Era of Self-Help

Question 1

Which of the following authors is correctly matched with his or her work?

A)Paul Laurence Dunbar,The House Behind the Cedars
B)Pauline Hopkins,The Marrow Tradition
C)Charles W.Chesnutt,The Conjure Woman
D)Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,The Colonel's Dream

Answer 1

Paul Laurence Dunbar,The House Behind the Cedars

Question 2

What issue arose in the 1880s and 1890s to cause strife in universities such as Fisk and Howard?

A)the universities' failure to win financial supports from white philanthropists
B)the universities' insistence on hiring only African-American professors
C)the universities' refusal to admit more blacks to positions of leadership
D)the universities' insistence on providing only liberal arts educations and not vocational training

Answer 2

the universities' refusal to admit more blacks to positions of leadership

Question 3

Booker T.Washington stirred outrage among many white southerners by accepting an invitation to dine in the White House with President

A)Theodore Roosevelt.
B)William McKinley.
C)Benjamin Harrison.
D)William Howard Taft.

Answer 3

Theodore Roosevelt.

Question 4

One of the few views that Frederick Douglass and Booker T.Washington both shared was that

A)blacks should emigrate from the South to the cities of the North.
B)blacks should emigrate from the South to their "homeland" in Africa.
C)blacks should emigrate from the South to the territories in the West.
D)blacks should remain in the South.

Question 5

The curriculum of which institution exemplified the philosophy that education for blacks should consist primarily of industrial training?

A)Fisk University
B)Hampton Institute
C)Howard University
D)Spelman College

Question 6

Which black boxer's successful defense of his championship against the "Great White Hope," Jim Jeffries,in 1910 led to race riots and the passing of a bill outlawing the showing of fight films in theaters?

A)Jack Johnson
B)George Dixon
C)Tom Molineaux
D)Abe Hawkins

Question 7

Which of the following statements about Booker T.Washington is LEAST accurate?

A)He adopted a conciliatory tone toward whites and made no public demands for racial equality.
B)He stressed the importance of economic self-sufficiency to African-American uplift.
C)He secretly funded court cases which challenged Jim Crow laws.
D)He argued that a liberal arts education was the surest means to improve the status of black people.

Question 8

The famous scientist and botanist George Washington Carver became the head of which school's agricultural department in 1896?

A)Howard University
B)Tuskegee Institute
C)Hampton Institute
D)Fisk University

Question 9

The Niagara Movement's original platform called for all of the following EXCEPT

A)freedom of speech and criticism.
B)guaranteed suffrage for black men and all women.
C)the abolition of all race-based distinctions.
D)respect for working persons.

Question 10

Which editor of the Freeman helped to found the Afro-American League in 1890 to agitate for black rights?

A)William H.Councill
B)Isaiah T.Montgomery
C)William Hannibal Thomas
D)T.Thomas Fortune

Question 11

Which of the following statements about the funding of black schools in the South during the Progressive Era is LEAST accurate?

A)The low amount of public funds spent on black schools was incidental,arising more from the income levels of local communities than from deliberately racist policies.
B)The disenfranchisement of black citizens made it impossible for them to force tax dollars to be spent equitably on black and white schools.
C)Southern blacks had to pay a "double tax" on education because they had to spend their private wealth to make up for the shortfalls in public funds for their schools.
D)Although southern Progressives called for an "education revival," the movement was directed primarily at white students.

Question 12

In 1865,only about 5 percent of the African-American population could read.What percentage was literate by 1910?

A)25
B)40
C)55
D)70

Question 13

Which of the following statements about the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University is LEAST accurate?

A)They demonstrated the initiative which black students often undertook to relieve their schools' financial burdens.
B)Although they won lasting fame,they failed to earn much money.
C)They entertained audiences with renditions of black spirituals and work songs.
D)They performed not only in the United States but also in Europe,sometimes in front of royal audiences.

Question 14

What stance did white southerners take on philanthropic associations' funding of black schools in the late nineteenth century?

A)They ignored it because they had no interest in the issue of black education.
B)They were embarrassed by the need for philanthropic funding and worked hard to lift black schools up to the level of white ones.
C)They welcomed it because it gave them an excuse not to fund black schools as well as they funded white ones.
D)They opposed it out of fear that the associations would encourage dangerous ideas of racial equality.

Question 15

Which of the following statements about the National Association of Colored Women is LEAST accurate?

A)The organization adopted the feminist stance that black women had the unique ability and responsibility to uplift the black race as a whole.
B)The organization established a number of institutions designed to foster education and self-help,including kindergartens,nurseries,and settlement houses.
C)The organization refuted the prevailing view that women gained power through the domestic sphere and through their roles as mothers and wives.
D)The organization's leadership subscribed to the notion that racial uplift was best accomplished through the guidance of an elite Talented Tenth.

Question 16

The Niagara Movement of the early twentieth century is best characterized as

A)a broad-based movement for social change.
B)a small group which sought support primarily from the most educated blacks.
C)the first organization founded specifically to protect and expand blacks' rights.
D)a grass-roots movement originating from the bottom-up.

Question 17

Which African-American writer was accused of being a "race traitor" for arguing in his book The American Negro that blacks were inherently inferior to whites?

A)Booker T.Washington
B)Isaiah T.Montgomery
C)William Hannibal Thomas
D)T.Thomas Fortune

Question 18

The General Education Board and the Slater Fund were examples of foundations to aid southern black schools established by

A)wealthy industrialists.
B)the federal government.
C)individual state governments.
D)white churches.

Question 19

In 1908,Berea College in Kentucky

A)became the first racially integrated college in the South.
B)closed down rather than admit a black student who had sued to be admitted.
C)ended its policy of racial integration after the Supreme Court declared the policy illegal.
D)became the first southern university to allow a black professor to teach classes to white students.