Discrimination in the Gilded Age

What is used to determine the number of representatives that each state will have in the House of Representatives?

• a vote

• the Census

• taxes

• the law

Match the following people with the correct description

• has been called the father of the Constitution

• George Washington Carver

• arrested for refusing to move from a first class train car

• Fredrick Douglass

• an important agricultural scientist

• Homer Plessy

• distinguished African American educator

• Booker T Washington

The challenge to the Civil Rights Act of 1875 heard in the Supreme Court claimed that the Act violated __________________.

• segregation

• employment

• state's rights

• discrimination

Which Supreme Court case made segregation legal ("separate but equal")?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Michael Scott v. Dwight

• Brown v. Board of Education

Which institution was the first to train African American Educators?

• Susquehanna University

• Tuskegee Normal School

• Institute for Colored Youth

• Wilberforce University

George Washington Carver wanted family farms to grow _________ and _________ instead of cotton.

• peanuts and squash

• peanuts and sweet potatoes

• beans and canteloupe

• wheat and grapes

Frederick Douglas was Vice President of the United States.

• true

• false

Which state was one of the first to grant women the right to vote?

• Texas

• Utah

• Florida

• Alabama

Which word means the right to vote?

• independence

• servitude

• suffrage

• segregation

How did Susan B. Anthony carrying a large money purse demonstrate her independence?

• a large purse meant that she was rich

• it showed that she liked to carry all of her money with her instead of putting it in a bank

• women didn't carry money in the 1880s, but she was showing that she did

• she was trying to start a fashion trend