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ISSUES OF THE GILDED AGE
Section 1 Quiz
A.
Key Terms and People
Directions: Write T in the space provided if a statement is true. If a statement is false, write F
in the space provided and replace the underlined term or person with the correct term or person.
1. Jim Crow laws kept blacks and whites segregated in the South.
2. Poll taxes required voters to prove that they could read in order to vote.
3. Booker T. Washington campaigned against lynching.
4. Grandfather clauses allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors
had voted prior to 1866.
5. W.E.B. Du Bois discouraged African Americans from demanding
immediate recognition of their civil rights.
6. Las Gorras Blancas destroyed ranchers’ property in defense of Mexican
Americans’ land rights.
B.
Key Concepts
Directions: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in the blank.
7. Some African American leaders responded to segregation by
a. tearing up railroad ties and burning houses.
b. educating themselves and writing pamphlets.
c. going to court to change immigration laws.
d. establishing Jim Crow jury boxes.
8. W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
a. worked together to overturn Jim Crow laws in the South.
b. argued that African Americans should demand full equality.
c. rejected the United States and moved to Ghana.
d. disagreed over whether achieving equality was the burden
of the nation or of African Americans.
9. The Chinese Exclusion Act
a. barred U.S. cities from hiring Chinese workers.
b. prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country.
c. stripped Chinese Americans of their U.S. citizenship.
d. forced Chinese children to attend segregated schools.
10. Unlike African American men, women in the late 1800s
a. had to pay a poll tax to vote.
b. were able to vote under grandfather clauses.
c. did not have the legal right to vote.
d. experienced no restrictions when voting.
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