Reconstruction and Segregation

Question 1

The belief that Whites were atop the evolutionary chain and needed to be protected from others

Accepted Answer

Social Darwinism

Question 2

Invented lubrication system that kept train engines from overheating

Accepted Answer

Elijah McCoy

Question 3

Southerners who helped the North with Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

Scalawags

Question 4

Often made Blacks interpret the Constitution or sometimes passages in foreign languages.

Accepted Answer

Literacy Tests

Question 5

Period during and after WW1 where many African Americans moved North

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 6

African American leader who founded the NAACP; believed in immediate equality with Whites

Accepted Answer

DuBois

Question 7

Amendment that abolished slavery

Accepted Answer

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Question 8

African-American woman famous for her crusade against lynching

Accepted Answer

Ida B Wells

Question 9

African American inventor who assisted Edison and Bell; invented toilet system for trains

Accepted Answer

Lewis Latimer

Question 10

Doctor who invented the process for storing blood for transfusions

Accepted Answer

Charles Drew

Question 11

Northerners who went South after the Civil War to help with Reconstruction

Accepted Answer

Carpetbaggers

Question 12

Composed ragtime music

Accepted Answer

Scott Joplin

Question 13

African American soldiers who fought in the Indian Wars and the Spanish American War

Accepted Answer

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 14

First Black heavyweight boxing champion

Accepted Answer

Jack Johnson

Question 15

Amendment that said everyone born in the US is a citizen

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

Amendment that allowed African American men over 21 to vote

Accepted Answer

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Question 17

Paying money to have the right to vote

Accepted Answer

Poll Taxes

Question 18

A separate ballot for every elected office. Confused voters who had difficulty reading

Accepted Answer

Eight Box Law

Question 19

Two most popular sports in the early 20th century

Accepted Answer

Baseball and Boxing

Question 20

First doctor to perform open heart surgery

Accepted Answer

Daniel Hale Williams

Question 21

Law that said you could only vote if your grandfather could in 1860

Accepted Answer

Grandfather Clause

Question 22

Haircare mogul who became the first African American female millionaire

Accepted Answer

Madame CJ Walker

Question 23

Black leader who built Tuskegee Institute; thought Blacks should focus on economic improvement

Accepted Answer

Booker T Washington

Question 24

Supreme Court case that established "Separate but Equal"

Accepted Answer

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 25

Discoverer of the whole cell theory in marine biology

Accepted Answer

Edward Just

Reconstruction and Segregation

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