American History A- Lesson 22

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Who was the first African American to serve a full term as a senator?

Blanche Bruce

Who was the first head of Tuskegee University?

Booker T. Washington

Which constitutional amendment was designed to combat part of the black codes?

Fifteenth Amendment

Who was the agricultural chemist who developed peanut farming as a strategy for improving soil quality?

George Washington Carver

Who was the newspaper editor who was the leading spokesman for the "New South"?

Henry Grady

Who was the first African American to serve in the US Congress?

Hiram Revels

Whose arrest for sitting in the white section of a train led to a court battle over the legality of segregation laws?

Homer Plessy

How did Hiram Rhodes Revels help the advancement of the African American community?

How did Hiram Rhodes Revels help the advancement of the African American community? (Answer is the same as the question)

Which statement best describes Tuskegee University?

It focused on vocational training for African Americans.

How did the Plessy v. Ferguson case impact African Americans in the South? (Select all that apply.)

It forced black people to continue using segregated facilities. It denied the efforts of activists to overturn segregation laws.

What was one way the Republican government responded to black codes?

It strengthened the Freedmen's Bureau.

What laws segregated blacks from whites and limited African American rights in the South?

Jim Crow laws

How did the Compromise of 1877 affect southern policy? (Select all that apply.)

Jim Crow laws were passed. The Reconstruction era ended.

Southerners who wanted Democratic control of southern governments were known as what?

Redeemers

What were results of the Compromise of 1877?

Rutherford Hayes became president. Home-rule was established in the South.

How did the Ku Klux Klan impact the voting rights of African Americans?

The Ku Klux Klan terrorized African Americans to stop them from voting.

Which option shows a reason for the expansion of iron and steel mills in the South after the Civil War?

The South had raw materials needed for iron and steel production.

How did the southern economy change after the Civil War?

The South increased its industrial production.

Why did southern states implement Jim Crow laws?

The laws were passed based on the belief that blacks were inferior to whites.

Who was the activist and writer who helped found the NAACP and the Niagara movement?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Why did Booker T. Washington establish Tuskegee University?

Washington believed that economic success would lead to racial equality for African Americans.

Who were the founders of the Ku Klux Klan?

former Confederate soldiers

Which principle did the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson establish?

separate but equal accommodation under the law

Which southern principle was upheld by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

separate but equal accommodations for blacks

What is the name of the practice in which southern farmers provided labor to grow crops for landowners who paid them part of the profit after harvest?

sharecropper

Which of these industries grew the fastest in the South in the late 1800s?

textile mills

What was the purpose of Tuskegee University?

to help African Americans succeed economically

What was one of the principal goals of the Ku Klux Klan?

to keep blacks and white Republicans out of office


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