Question 1

Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute eventually

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grew from a small school into a university.

Question 2

Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

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a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality

Question 3

Booker T. Washington believed that African American accommodation to segregation should be accompanied by

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hard work, self-improvement, and patience.

Question 4

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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He believed that in a merit-based society, hard work and patience would lead to racial equality.

Question 5

During the Jim Crow era, southern states imposed poll taxes and literacy tests in order to

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prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

Question 6

In the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, Supreme Court justices claimed that the Fourteenth Amendment did not protect

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social rights.

Question 7

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

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racially segregated train cars.

Question 8

Which statement best describes the relationship between Jim Crow laws and the separate but equal doctrine?

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Jim Crow laws were designed to enforce this doctrine by requiring racial segregation for public facilities.

Question 9

In Plessy v. Ferguson, Homer Plessy claimed that separate but equal violated his rights under the

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Fourteenth Amendment.

Question 10

Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896.Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. The views Harlan expressed in this quotation were

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later adopted by the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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