Why did many blacks switch their allegiance to the Democratic Party in the 1930s?
a. Many Republican congressmen had joined the Ku Klux Klan.
b. Roosevelt promised desegregation during his campaign for the presidency.
c. Roosevelts New Deal program offered the prospect of jobs during an especially difficult time.
d. The previous Republican administration had segregated the departments of the Treasury and Post Office.
e. The Republican Party renounced the fight for desegregation.
Question -2-Who helped to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Frederick Douglass
c. Stephen Douglas
d. W.E.B. Du Bois
e. William Lloyd Garrison
Question -3-Who was the founding president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Frederick Douglass
c. Stephen Douglas
d. W.E.B. Du Bois
e. William Lloyd Garrison
Question -4-Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) marked the beginning of
a. grandfather clauses.
b. Jim Crow laws.
c. martial law in the South.
d. Black Codes.
e. the separate but equal doctrine.
Question -5-Many Supreme Court cases during the Reconstruction era worked to
a. bolster the influence of the Fourteenth Amendment.
b. deny states the power to marginalize black voters.
c. increase federal power over the states.
d. limit federal power to combat discrimination.
e. solidify the dominance of the northern states.
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