In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect
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D. social rights
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.
"[P]rogress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing."
In this quotation, Washington is expressing his view that
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B. The government cannot legislate equality.
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Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the "separate but equal" doctrine?
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D. Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities.
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Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted
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A. in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
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Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to
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B. adapt to it as they worked to gain equality.
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Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of
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A. discrimination against African Americans.
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In Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that "separate but equal" violated his rights under the
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C. Fourteenth Amendment.
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Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually
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D. grew from a small school into a university.
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Which of the following directly violated the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
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A. poll taxes
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.
"Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded."
How does this quotation relate to Washington's theory of accommodation?
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A. He believed that in a merit-based society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality.
In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect
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D. social rights
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech.
"[P]rogress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing."
In this quotation, Washington is expressing his view that
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B. The government cannot legislate equality.
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Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the "separate but equal" doctrine?
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D. Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities.
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Jim Crow laws, a set of racist and discriminatory rules and regulations against African Americans, were enacted
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A. in the South starting in the mid- to late 1800s.
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Booker T. Washington believed that the best strategy to end racial segregation was for African Americans to
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B. adapt to it as they worked to gain equality.
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Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of
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A. discrimination against African Americans.
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In Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that "separate but equal" violated his rights under the
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C. Fourteenth Amendment.
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Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually
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D. grew from a small school into a university.
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Which of the following directly violated the intent of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution?
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A. poll taxes
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery: An Autobiography.
"Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded."
How does this quotation relate to Washington's theory of accommodation?
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A. He believed that in a merit-based society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality.
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