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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Declining Years of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was not started in the south as it is commonly believed?
(a) Civil rights.
(b) Plantations.
(c) Desegregation.
(d) Segregation.

2. Which state stepped forward with this particular issue?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

3. In what decade did the Ku Klux Klan reach the height of its power?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1910s.

4. What is the word used to describe people who disliked or were afraid of the Negroes?
(a) Negrophobes.
(b) Negrophiles.
(c) Collaborators.
(d) Supremacists.

5. Liberals fought hard against which of the following notions?
(a) The South should remain separate.
(b) Whites are inherently superior.
(c) Desegretation will lead to interracial marriages.
(d) Blacks are lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the approval for voting appear?

2. Which is not part of the group that referred to blacks as being lazy?

3. What was the term used to define government officials put in charge of the new laws regarding former slaves?

4. In what year did this major historical event take place?

5. At the turn of the century, blacks were placed where on the rungs of society?

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