Lesson 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 the term 'segregation' mean in US history?

    • Abolishing voting
    • Separating by law
    • Enslaving local workers
    • Sharing equal rights

  4. What was the main purpose of the Jim Crow laws?

    • Enforce segregation
    • Fund public schools
    • Abolish slavery
    • Grant voting rights

  5. How did Homer Plessy challenge Louisiana segregation laws in 1892?

    • Entering a white school
    • Speaking in court
    • Sitting in white carriage
    • Voting in an election

  6. What was the primary goal of the Reconstruction era?

    • Protect Black rights
    • Enforce segregation
    • Expand southern territory
    • Industrialise the north

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

    • Troops withdrew
    • New president elected
    • Slavery abolished
    • Supreme court dissolved

  8. What does the term 'disenfranchise' mean?

    • Impose segregation
    • Ban education
    • Remove voting rights
    • Confiscate property

  9. How were literacy tests used against Black voters?

    • Applied unfairly
    • Set too quickly
    • Always banned
    • Written in French

  10. Who was exempt from voting tests under the grandfather clause?

    • Former soldiers
    • Descendants of voters
    • Landowners
    • Taxpayers

  11. What was a poll tax designed to do?

    • Support veterans
    • Stop poor voting
    • Pay teachers
    • Fund railways

  12. Which group used terror to prevent Black Americans from voting?

    • Federal police
    • Union army
    • Supreme court
    • Ku Klux Klan

  13. A bus sign ordering Black passengers to the rear demonstrates what?

    • Economic growth
    • Equal access
    • Voting reform
    • Public segregation

  14. Under 'separate but equal', how did segregated facilities actually compare?

    • Equally funded
    • Unequal and poor
    • Larger and newer
    • Modern and clean

  15. What was the origin of the term 'Jim Crow'?

    • Southern politician
    • Civil rights leader
    • Mocking stage character
    • Supreme court judge

  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 primarily fight segregation after 1909?

    • Legal court cases
    • Political assassination
    • General strikes
    • Armed rebellion

  18. What was the mass movement of Black Americans to northern cities called?

    • The Great Migration
    • The Homestead Rush
    • The Underground Railroad
    • The Civil Rights March

  19. Which source type is best for understanding how Black Americans felt under Jim Crow?

    • Statute law
    • Court ruling
    • Census data
    • Personal memoir

  20. Why was political change difficult for Black citizens in the Jim Crow South?

    • Free education
    • Disenfranchisement
    • Universal suffrage
    • Economic growth

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