Deck 6: African Americans: From Slavery to Segregation

Question 1

Fogel and Engerman's first book touched off an intellectual firestorm because they did not ? include a:

A) set of quantitative data.
B) reference section.
C) condemnation of slavery.
D) condemnation of Whites.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on:

A) November 23, 1697.
B) July 4, 1776.
C) January 1, 1863.
D) January 1, 1963.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

When the Civil War began,slave resistance:

A) declined.
B) remained unchanged.
C) declined under pressure.
D) increased under Union encouragement.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

In the late 1880s,Whites secretively responded to the changing social order by forming the:

A) KKK.
B) Arian Knights.
C) Whites-only clubs.
D) SORD Clans.

Question 5

All of the following are true of the American Black experience except:

A) Blacks resemble a colonized minority.
B) Blacks, like Europeans came voluntarily.
C) Blacks did not come voluntarily.
D) Blacks resembled a conquered people.

Question 6

A new form of southern economic slavery that impoverished Whites and Blacks was called:

A) slavery.
B) indentured servitude.
C) human bondage.
D) sharecropping.

Question 7

According to Bennett (1964) being ________ became a badge of servitude.

A) poor
B) non-native
C) Black
D) Catholic

Question 8

The following bureau was set up to assist Blacks after the Civil War ended:

A) Blackmen's.
B) Freedmen's.
C) Former slave's.
D) All free.

Question 9

The American Colonization Society established which African country for freed Blacks?

A) Zaire (Congo)
B) South Africa
C) Zambia
D) Liberia

Question 10

Efforts to block the Black voters from exercising their rights to vote included a "grandfather ? clause" which claimed that you could vote then if your grandfather could legally vote in:

A) 1860.
B) 1863.
C) 1890.
D) 1904.

Question 11

All of the following forms of slave resistance were commonly practiced except:

A) murdering masters.
B) self-induced abortions.
C) breaking tools.
D) working slow.

Question 12

It can be said that the reconstruction governments of post-Civil war United States succeeded ? in placing ________ ________ in the hands of the common people.

A) federal monies
B) federal pardons
C) political graft
D) political power

Question 13

It was during the 1650-1700 period when changes in the production of ________ led to the ? acceptance of Black slavery as the solution to the labor problem.

A) sugar cane
B) corn
C) cotton
D) tobacco

Question 14

The U.S.separate but equal doctrine was established through which Supreme Court case?

A) Brown v. Topeka
B) Plessy v. Topeka
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) Brown v. Ferguson

Question 15

Elkins claimed all of the following about the experience of Black slaves,except:

A) Slavery was oppressive.
B) Slaves had a life-albeit at a subsistence level.
C) Slavery reduced Blacks to a subhuman condition.
D) Slave conditions generated extreme subservience and passivity.

Question 16

One strong piece of federal legislation which protected "privileges and immunities" of citizens ? was called the:

A) Thirteenth Amendment.
B) Fourteenth Amendment.
C) Civil Rights Act of 1836.
D) Civil Rights Act of 1905.

Question 17

The Klan's campaign against blacks became increasingly:

A) peaceful over time.
B) sympathetic to Whites, Blacks, and Jews.
C) terrorist.
D) legalized.

Question 18

Southern legislators in post-Civil war United States worked to gain all of the following,except:

A) cooperative national work.
B) removal of federal troops.
C) recapturing state governments.
D) resolving problems without interference.

Question 19

Presidents Lincoln and Johnson promoted an equality based reconstruction plan which was ? officially opposed to by ________ ________ in most Southern States.

A) Black codes
B) Black laws
C) segregationist laws
D) segregationist codes

Question 20

Jim Crow laws were legislated at all of the following levels,except:

A) state.
B) federal.
C) city.
D) county.

Question 21

The author of the speech called the Atlanta Compromises was:

A) W.E.B. DuBois.
B) Booker T. Washington.
C) Monroe Trotter.
D) Nan Tucker.

Question 22

The old plantar class in the South was infuriated by the reconstruction plan.

Question 23

The KKK's values were integrated into the everyday lives of White Protestants.

Question 24

After the Civil War the North divided the southern states into ten military districts.

Question 25

Fogel ended up writing two books on the effects of slavery.

Question 26

The NAACP opposed this Black civil rights leader.

A) Garvey
B) DuBois
C) Taylor
D) King

Question 27

Most Blacks were kept from assimilating into the White's world.

Question 28

The UNIA focused on sending Blacks to:

A) Africa.
B) colleges.
C) the West.
D) Congress.

Question 29

Prosser,Vesey,and Turner were all hanged for slave uprisings.

Question 30

The tenancy and sharecropping system worked to the disadvantage of practically everyone but ? the lenders.

Question 31

Legal segregation,with only a few exceptions was established primarily in the:

A) South.
B) North.
C) West.
D) East.

Question 32

White and Black Union troops were paid the same wage from the outset.

Question 33

Gutman found that slaves rarely lived in marriages or long-term family relationships.

Question 34

The NAACP was formed by all of the following except:

A) W.E.B. DuBois.
B) Whites.
C) Blacks.
D) Booker T. Washington.

Question 35

Those who formed the Niagara movement claimed that:

A) Booker T. Washington was right.
B) Blacks should wait things out without doing much.
C) Blacks should protest the curtailment of their rights.
D) Nan Tucker was right.

Question 36

Legislation was passed to segregate the southern schools and churches before reconstruction ? even ended.

Question 37

A threat to hold a march on Washington,D.C led President Roosevelt to issue order No.8802 ? which ________ in defense sectors.

A) allocated Black college funds
B) prohibited lynchings
C) prohibited racial discrimination
D) allocated federal monies for segregation reparations

Question 38

A major immigration pattern for Blacks occurred after WWI in this direction:

A) Africa to the United States.
B) South to West in the United States.
C) Europe to the United States.
D) South to North in the United States.

Question 39

During the period between the Emancipation Proclamation and the Depression thousands of ? Blacks had been:

A) deported.
B) lynched.
C) raped.
D) robbed.

Question 40

The Black renaissance originated from which city?

A) Atlanta
B) Memphis
C) Chicago
D) Harlem

Question 41

Provide a few supportive evidences that the migration of Blacks from the rural south to the ? urban north resembled European migration stream to the United States.

Question 42

Make the argument that the experience of Blacks resembles the experience of a conquered or ? colonized people.

Question 43

Take the position of the critics of the Atlanta Compromise and make a list of weaknesses ? Booker T.Washington had in his approach.

Question 44

Researchers claim there is no comparison ever between Blacks and Europeans in terms of ? migration patterns.

Question 45

In some ways,Jim Crow proved to me a more efficient system of subordination than slavery ? had been.

Question 46

How did the dominant White group react to the loss of the Civil War,reconstruction plan,and ? federal legislation which followed?

Question 47

All the Supreme Court Justices supported segregation in the 1896 Plessy v.Ferguson case.

Question 48

Almost every Black civil rights activist supported the Atlanta Compromise.

Question 49

Blacks moved in large numbers to northern cities for industrial jobs.

Question 50

CORE was a non-violent organization that sought for change.

Question 51

Make a list of at least ten major civil rights infractions Blacks suffered while in the United ? States.Include page references to your text.How many of these are unique to the Black ? experience?
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Question 52

Using examples provided in the text,create an argument in favor of using peaceful,? non-violent efforts to bring about civil rights change.

Question 53

Garvey came under fire exclusively from Whites who felt threatened by his "Back to Africa" ? campaign.

Question 54

Briefly summarize the key legislative outcomes discussed in Chapter 6,Include a brief ? statement on their effect on Black quality of life.

Question 55

The Lost Nation of Islam was a separationist movement.

Question 56

In 1890 Mississippi led the southern states in disenfranchising Black voters.

Question 57

In 1921 Tulsa,Oklahoma,a street brawl occurred between Blacks and Whites where about 50 ? died.

Question 58

The Supreme Court Case Brown v.Topeka Board of Education was the undoing of separate but ? equal legislation set in place by Plessy v.Ferguson.

Question 59

Create a roster of key Black civil rights leaders who had an impact (for better or worse) on the ? history of the Black experience in the United States.

Question 60

Blacks lost most of the gains from the Civil War with the Plessy v.Ferguson decision.

Question 61

Make the argument that the experience of Blacks is unique in comparison to Native Americans,? Mexican Americans,and Irish Americans.

Question 62

Provide at least five examples from your text of how Blacks supported the national agenda at ? various times in history,in spite of the overall mistreatment of Blacks in the country.