Lesson Y9-U01-L01

Y9-U01-L01 Slavery's Legacy Segregation & Jim Crow Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U01-L01, Slavery's Legacy Segregation & Jim Crow: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 14: Year 9: Civil Rights, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In which year did the 13th Amendment abolish slavery across the United States?

    • 1865
    • 1877
    • 1868
    • 1870

  2. Which amendment gave Black men the right to vote in 1870?

    • The 13th Amendment
    • The 14th Amendment
    • The 19th Amendment
    • The 15th Amendment

  3. What does 'segregation' mean?

    • Taking away the right to vote
    • Moving people to a new area to work
    • Giving equal citizenship to all people
    • Keeping groups of people apart by law

  4. What were the Jim Crow laws?

    • Court rulings that ended segregation in schools across the whole country
    • Treaties that protected Black workers in the North and the Midwest
    • State laws in the US South that enforced segregation
    • Federal laws that gave Black Americans the vote in every Southern state

  5. How did Homer Plessy challenge the segregation law in 1892?

    • He stopped a train and demanded a separate carriage
    • He sued the railway company for lost wages
    • He led a crowd to vote in a whites-only polling station
    • He deliberately sat in a 'whites only' railway carriage

  6. What was Reconstruction?

    • A set of laws that banned Black Americans from owning land anywhere in the South
    • A brief period when the federal government tried to protect Black rights
    • A plan that moved all Black Americans to new homes in Northern cities and factories
    • A campaign to build new railways across the defeated South and link every town together

  7. What event brought Reconstruction to an end in 1877?

    • The Civil War broke out again across the South
    • The Supreme Court overturned the 14th Amendment
    • Federal troops withdrew from the South
    • Black Americans were given the vote in all states

  8. What does 'disenfranchise' mean?

    • To give someone a fair trial in court
    • To move someone to a new home
    • To lend money to a poor family
    • To take away someone's right to vote

  9. How were literacy tests used to stop Black Americans voting?

    • They were taken only in the North, where Black Americans rarely lived or voted
    • Officials set them unfairly, failing Black applicants but passing white ones
    • They were used only to check that every voter was over the age of twenty-one years
    • They tested knowledge of the Constitution that had been taught in every school

  10. Why was the grandfather clause unfair to Black voters?

    • Their grandfathers had been enslaved and could not have voted
    • Their grandfathers had fought for the Confederate army and were then pardoned by the state
    • Their grandfathers had moved north before the Civil War and never returned
    • Their grandfathers had refused to pay the poll tax and were fined by the courts

  11. What was a poll tax?

    • A payment to the state government by every landowner in the county each year
    • A charge paid by new businesses when they register with the local council
    • A tax paid by every farmer on the Plains each year on their livestock
    • A fee to vote that poor citizens could not afford

  12. Which group used terror, including beatings and murder, to stop Black people voting?

    • The Ku Klux Klan
    • The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    • The Great Migration movement
    • The Supreme Court of the United States

  13. A sign on a Southern bus reads 'Colored passengers will occupy seats from the rear.' What does this show?

    • Segregation was enforced in everyday public life
    • Black passengers were given the best seats on the bus
    • The Civil Rights Act had banned segregation on buses
    • Bus companies had run out of seats for passengers

  14. A school for Black children has old books and fewer teachers than the white school across town. Under 'separate but equal', what does this show?

    • That the 13th Amendment had been put into practice
    • That Black children preferred smaller classes
    • That facilities were separate but never truly equal
    • That the school was given extra funding by the state

  15. Where does the name 'Jim Crow' come from?

    • A mocking stage character used to insult Black people
    • A Black leader who founded the NAACP in 1909
    • A Supreme Court judge who ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson
    • A Southern politician who wrote the first segregation law

  16. Which journalist exposed the horror of lynching to the world?

    • Thomas D. Rice
    • Ida B. Wells
    • Malcolm X
    • Rosa Parks

  17. How did the NAACP, founded in 1909, fight segregation?

    • By organising armed rebellion against Southern state governments
    • By raising taxes to pay for separate Black schools
    • Through the courts, challenging segregation in legal cases
    • By building new railways to link Black communities

  18. What was the Great Migration?

    • The journey of enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean to plantations in the Caribbean and the Americas
    • The move of about six million Black Americans from the rural South to northern cities
    • The forced removal of Black Americans from Northern cities back to Southern farms
    • The move of white farmers from the Southern states out to the open Plains and West

  19. Which source is more useful for understanding how Black Americans FELT under Jim Crow, and why?

    • Source D, a first-hand memory of someone who lived it
    • Source C, because a sign shows exactly how people felt about segregation day to day
    • Source B, because it was written by the Supreme Court justices in 1896 as a ruling
    • Source A, because it is an official law made by the state legislature in 1890

  20. Why did segregation last so long in the South after 1877?

    • The federal government strongly supported segregation in every city across the nation
    • Black Americans chose to live separately in their own communities, often by their own choice
    • Black citizens could not vote out the politicians who kept the Jim Crow laws
    • The 13th Amendment had made segregation legal in every Southern state of the Union

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