Civil Rights Exam I

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The practice of discriminating against ethnic groups different from one's own.

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RACISM

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A biblical passage used to justify black slavery.

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CURSE OF HAM

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(1817-1895) An ex-slave and abolitionist known as the 'father of the civil rights movement.'

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FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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This 1865 constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

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13th AMENDMENT

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This 1868 constitutional amendment made blacks citizens and guaranteed the 'equal protection of the laws.'

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14th AMENDMENT

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This 1870 constitutional amendment prohibited racial discrimination in voting.

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15th AMENDMENT

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The violent restoration of southern white governments after Reconstruction.

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MISSISSIPPI PLAN

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A white terrorist organization against integration.

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KU KLUX KLAN

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The murder of 3,500 blacks by angry whites, often by hanging from trees.

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LYNCHING

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A tax levied by southern states to disfranchise blacks and poor whites.

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POLL TAX

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A legal provision in southern states the exempted whites from voting restrictions aimed at blacks.

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GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

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A device used by southern registrars to disqualify blacks from voting.

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LITERACY TESTS

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The federal government's attempts after the Civil War to restore the defeated Confederate states to the Union and to assist the former slaves.

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RECONSTRUCTION

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A 19th century minstrel character whose caricature of black culture became identified with segregationist practices in the South.

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JIM CROW

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Southern state laws enacted after the Civil War that greatly restricted black mobility, economic opportunity, and political expression.

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BLACK CODES

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Marriage or cohabitation between men and women of different races.

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MISCEGENATION

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A 1915 silent film that portrayed newly freed blacks as buffoons and rapists and thereby justified the KKK's vigilantism.

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THE BIRTH OF A NATION

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The Supreme Court decision that permitted racial segregation.

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PLESSY V. FERGUSON (1896)

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The enforced separation of the races.

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SEGREGATION

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An organized campaign to promote civil rights by refusing to buy goods or services.

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BOYCOTT

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A black person compelled to act deferentially to whites.

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SAMBO

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(1856-1915); Ex-slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute to promote his belief that blacks should seek economic self-reliance first, not political equality.

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

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The various means, such as the poll tax and white primaries, to prevent blacks from voting.

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DISFRANCHISEMENT

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(1862-1931); Crusader against lynching and NAACP co-founder.

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IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT

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(1868-1963); Harvard-trained intellectual and NAACP co-founder who believed that the black elite should lead the race in demanding equality.

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W.E.B. DU BOIS

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The oldest, largest, and best-known civil rights organization whose legal and political efforts resulted in major successes in desegregating American society.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE

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NAACP executive secretary who fought against lynching.

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WALTER WHITE

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The elimination of laws and customs that separated the races in schools, public accommodations, and neighborhoods.

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DESEGREGATION

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Union leader and architect of the March on Washington Movement.

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A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH

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Black nationalist from Jamaica whose UNIA promoted a 'Back to Africa' movement.

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MARCUS GARVEY

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The political ideology that espouses solidarity among blacks the world over and total control over black culture and institutions.

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BLACK NATIONALISM

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the movement of millions of blacks from the South to the North for a century after the Civil War, transforming society and politics and setting the stage for the civil rights movement.

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GREAT MIGRATION

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founded in 1910 to promote economic progress for blacks.

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URBAN LEAGUE

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the Depression-era strategy for blacks to keep their money within the black community

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BUY BLACK CAMPAIGN

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urban protests during the Great Depression against businesses that did not hire black workers

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DON'T BUY WHERE YOU CAN'T WORK

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Congress used the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments of the Constitution to:

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A. enact the nation's first civil rights laws

B. recognize blacks as citizens

C. prohibit racial violence

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W.E.B. Du Bois:

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A) spoke critically of Booker T. Washington.

C) was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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How long did the Montgomery bus boycott last

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B. 381 days

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Of the following, which item is LEAST likely to be considered an aid in the advancement of Black rights?

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c. Political Compromise of 1877

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Which of the following statements would Booker T. Washington most likely agree with?

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B. “If blacks prove their worth in the marketplace political equality and social integration would follow.”

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This founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association was the first to use the term “black.”

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D) Marcus Garvey

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Who was the CORE attorney who organized North Carolina Sit-ins and later preached black power?

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A) Floyd McKissick

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Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896

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2) is the Supreme Court decision that permitted racist segregation.