Art and power – African-American art

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Historical background : MCQ - Choose the correct answer :

1. The American Civil War :

1. Lasted 4 years from 1914 to 1918
2. Lasted 4 years from 1861 to 1865
3. Lasted 4 years from 1776 to 1780

1. One of the main reasons why this war was waged was (2 answers):

1. Northerners wanted to limit slavery and even abolish it
2. Southerners wanted to maintain slavery and even develop it
3. Northerners wanted to maintain slavery
4. Southerners wanted to abolish slavery

1. At the time, the economy in the North rested on :

1. Industry
2. Agriculture

1. And the South was more :

1. Industrial
2. Agricultural

1. The Civil War started after the election of :

1. George Washington
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Thomas Jefferson

1.  Southern states wanted to :

1. separate from the Federal Union and create an independent Confederacy
2. stay in the Federal Union
3. free slaves

1. The consequences of the war were very important (3 answers):

1. The North lost more lives but was victorious and 4 million slaves were freed
2. The South lost fewer lives and won the war and 6 million slaves were freed
3. The economy of the South was ruined
4. The economy of the North did not suffer so much

1. The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 aimed to :

1. Free all the slaves in the states that fought for the South
2. Free all the slaves in the states that fought for the North
3. Free all the slaves in the USA

1. The goal of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was to :

1. Make slavery illegal everywhere in the US
2. Make slavery illegal in the Southern states
3. Make slavery illegal in the Northern states

1. After president Lincoln was killed, Congress voted (2answers):

1. The 14th and 15th Amendments which granted citizenship to all former slaves and gave them the right to vote
2. The 14th and 15th Amendments which made former slaves equal citizens
3. The 14th and 15th Amendments which rejected Southern states

1. The KKK was :

1. A hate group which refused equal rights for former slaves
2. A Reconstruction group
3. Members of the Federal troops

1. Jim Crow laws refer to (2 answers):

1. Segregation laws passed between 1876 and 1965
2. Equal laws for all at all times
3. Laws that discriminated against non-white people

1. One law said that a person could vote :

1. Only if his/her grandfather could vote
2. Only if his/her father could vote
3. Only if his/her brother could vote

1. This law discriminated against :

1. All citizens
2. Only young generations
3. The free children and grandchildren of slaves

1. The ‘’separate but equal status’’ meant that (2 answers):

1. Segregation was established in public services
2. Equality was established in public places
3. Equal rights were not given to everyone

1. In 1896 , an African American from Louisiana named Homer Plessy (several answers):

1. Objected to the Jim Crow laws
2. Brought the case to the Supreme Court
3. Wanted to stop segregation in trains
4. Won the trial (=procès)

1. The Brown vs Board of Education in 1954 marked (several answers):

1. The first success against segregation and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
2. The possibility for black and white children to go to the same schools
3. The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

1. Rosa Parks was a seamstress who is famous because :

1. She refused to give her seat to a white person
2. She accepted to give her seat to a white person
3. She was Martin Luther King’s sister

1. President Lyndon Johnson’s Civil Rights Bill in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965  aimed to (several answers) :

1. Protect African Americans
2. Guarantee the right to vote to African Americans
3. Put an end to Jim Crow laws

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