Unit 5 Ethnic Studies Study Guide

The word ______ means when one group  is treated differently than another group

• segregation

• discrimination

• activist

• nonviolent

Which of the following terms means "keeping things or people separate"?

• segregation

• nonviolent

• prejudice

• disenfranchisement

Which one is NOT a goal of reconstruction?

• Readmitting 11 confederate states back into the Union

• Provide the means to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states

• ban African Americans from sitting with white people

•  establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population

The origins of the Jim Crow Laws came from a...

• play in the 1830's about a white man named Jim who painted his face black and represented African Americans to end slavery

• song in the 1830s where the white artist painted his face black and did a song and dance he claimed were inspired by an enslaved person he saw

• a book that Jim Crow wrote about African Americans

• a real man named Jim Crow who died in the 1830's after being beaten by a white man

Was it Booker T Washington or WEB DuBoiS that REJECTED compromise?

• Booker T Washington

• DuBois

How did Plessy vs. Ferguson validate the JIm Crow system? 

• It allowed for Jim Crow to rule over the states

• It allowed Africans Americans to go to school with white people

• It allowed laws banning African Americans from sharing the same things and places as whites

What was the Civil Rights movement?

• people who protest to call attention to a cause

• an organized effort by Black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law

• called for consumers to avoid a product or service that discriminated against African Americans

• combination of legal and cultural practices that kept black people separate from white people and deprived them of basic social, economic, and civil rights

What were the Jim Crow Laws?

• laws that kept white people in the back of the bus

• laws to help reconstruct society

• Laws that kept black people separate from white people

True or False: Booker T. Washington believe African Americans can achieve economic goals rather than political ones.

• FALSE

• TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE: WEB DuBois wanted African Americans to fight for their rights and wanted to protect their right to vote

• TRUE

• FALSE