Week 6 Quiz

In which year did the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to the English colony of Virginia arrive at Old Point Comfort?

Select one.

• 1619
• 1857
• 1863
• 1865

What did the Supreme Court hold in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?

Select one.

• That slavery was abolished everywhere in the United States and its territories, except as a punishment for crime.
• That a state could require separate railway accommodations by race if they were called equal.
• That a Black person whose ancestors were brought to the country and sold as slaves was not a citizen.
• That all persons born or naturalized in the United States were citizens of the United States.

The Emancipation Proclamation took effect in 1863. Where did it apply?

Select one.

• In every state and territory of the United States, loyal or not.
• Only in the states that had seceded from the Union.
• Only in the loyal border states that had stayed in the Union.
• Only in the parts of the Confederacy already under Union control.

Which amendment opens with the words "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States"?

Select one.

• The 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865
• The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870
• The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
• The 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868

The 15th Amendment (1870) bars denying the vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Which devices did former Confederate states write into law to disenfranchise Black voters anyway?

Select one.

• Literacy tests and grandfather clauses
• Citizenship and equal protection clauses
• Executive proclamations and Union Army orders
• Separate railway accommodations and dining rooms

What did the Supreme Court uphold in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

Select one.

• A federal law that banned separate railway cars in every state of the Union.
• A custom of separation that no state had written into law.
• A Louisiana law requiring separate railway accommodations by race.
• A state law that barred Black citizens from registering to vote.

The 14th Amendment, with its equal protection clause, was ratified in 1868, and Plessy v. Ferguson came in 1896. How many years separate them?

Select one.

• 11 years
• 28 years
• 47 years
• 246 years

The archive's E2 excerpt (illustrative) comes from a woman whose family moved north in the 1940s, interviewed in the 1990s; she remembers riding in the car set aside for Black passengers until the family was out of the South. Which documented events is the excerpt tied to?

Select one.

• The Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War
• The 13th Amendment's abolition of slavery in 1865
• The federal relocation program and the 1956 relocation law
• The Great Migration and Jim Crow segregation

A state law requires every railway to seat passengers in separate cars by race, and every conductor follows it, whatever any conductor personally believes. Which course concept names this best?

Select one.

• Prejudice
• Individual discrimination
• Institutional discrimination
• Ethnocentrism

In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), a legal status, citizen or not, was drawn along a racial line. Which course concept names the process of attaching racial meaning to a group, practice, or relationship that was not classified that way before?

Select one.

• Ethnocentrism
• Intersectionality
• Nationality
• Racialization