6.2 Pages 201 to 208

1) What were Black Codes?
A) laws passed in northern states to guarantee rights to newly freed blacks
B) laws passed in southern states that denied legal rights to newly freed slaves
C) restrictions placed on the right of newly freed slaves to own property in the North
D) Supreme Court decisions that mandated separate but equal facilities for newly freed
slaves
E) unsuccessful attempts by northern states to recruit newly freed blacks to work in
northern factories

2) The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments are collectively known as the
A) civil liberties amendments.
B) Bill of Rights.
C) Natural Law Legislation.
D) Civil War Amendments.
E) Bill of Liberties.

3) What was the original purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?
A) to guarantee citizenship to newly freed slaves
B) to ensure that the state governments abided by the Bill of Rights
C) to reward the South for its efforts during Reconstruction
D) to deny the right to vote to former slaves
E) to protect the interests of slave-holding northerners

4) Laws enacted by southern states that resulted in segregation by race were also known as
A) Jim Crow laws.
B) Black Codes.
C) grandfather clauses.
D) freedmen statutes.
E) sharecropper statutes.

5) In the Civil Rights Cases (1883), the Supreme Court determined that
A) the national government can discriminate on the basis of race.
B) state governments can discriminate on the basis of race.
C) private citizens can discriminate on the basis of race.
D) all forms of discrimination based on race are unconstitutional.
E) all forms of discrimination are unconstitutional.

6) Which of the following best summaries the reaction in the South to the Fifteenth Amendment?
A) Southern states complied with both the letter and the spirit of the amendment.
B) Southern states used Jim Crow laws to enforce racial integration.
C) Southern states engaged in a massive get-out-the-vote effort among former slaves.
D) Southern states decided that it would be better to close all public schools than to admit
black students to otherwise white schools.
E) Southern states found creative ways to avoid enfranchising blacks, such as literacy tests
and grandfather clauses.

7) In ________, the Supreme Court found that segregated rail transportation was constitutional
because separate but equal accommodations did not violate the equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment.
A) the Civil Rights cases
B) the Slaughterhouse cases
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) Bradwell v. Illinois
E) Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District

8) In the years after the Supreme Courtʹs decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, public accommodations in
the South were largely
A) segregated and equal.
B) segregated and unequal.
C) integrated and equal.
D) integrated and unequal.
E) separate and equal.

9) Womenʹs suffrage was guaranteed by the ________ Amendment.
A) Fourteenth
B) Fifteenth
C) Nineteenth
D) Twenty-first
E) Twenty-second

10) What sort of strategy did the NAACP pursue in its efforts to ensure equality for African
Americans by overturning Jim Crow laws and Plessy v. Ferguson?
A) a legislation strategy at the local level
B) a legislation strategy at the state level
C) a litigation strategy at the state level
D) a legislation strategy at the federal level
E) a litigation strategy at the federal level