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African American Fight Legal Discrimination
Turn-of-the Century Race Relations
Discrimination in the West
Vocabulary
Bonus Questions
100
What century did Southern states adopt a broad system of legal policies of racial discrimination and devised methods to weaken African-American political power?
The 20th century
100
What moderate reformer earned support from the whites and suggested that whites and blacks work together for social progress?
Booker T. Washington
100
In the late 1800s, what ethic group did the railroads hire more than any other?
Mexicans
100
An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote
Poll Tax
100
By 1880, how many Chinese immigrants lived in the United States?
100,000
200
During the 1870s and 1880s, what did the Supreme Court fail to do?
They failed to overturn the poll tax or the grandfather clause.
200
Who thought that the problems of inequality were too urgent to postpone?
Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois
200
Who went to America's Pacific Coast in search of wealth and work?
The Asian immigrants
200
Define debt peonage.
A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to the employer.
200
In the Plessy v. Ferguson case, how many years did the decision permit legalized racial segregation?
60 years
300
Give 3 examples of voting restrictions
Answers may vary: 1. Some states limited the vote to people who could read, and required registration officials to administer a literacy test to test reading. 2. Blacks trying to vote were often asked more questions than whites or given a test in foreign language 3. Officials could pass or fail applicants as they wished 4. Poll tax 5. The grandfather clause after January 1,1867
300
What did many African-Americans discover after that had moved to the Northern cites?
There was racial discrimination in the North as well.
300
What year did the Supreme Court declare involuntary peonage a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment?
1911
300
Define minstrel.
One of a troupe of entertainers in blackface presenting a comic variety show.
300
Who was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP?
Rosa Parks
400
What did Plessy claim as he was tried at court?
He claimed that segregation violated his right to equal protection under the law.
500
What case did the Supreme Court say separate-but-equal was unconstitutional in public education?
Brown v. Board of Education