Author Question: After the Civil War, as far as education was concerned, blacks A) showed a thirst for knowledge. ... (Read 54 times)

littleanan · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

All of the following statements describe changes made to southern education during Reconstruction EXCEPT:

A) White and black school attendance increased.
B) The number of public schools increased.
C) Poor children were not allowed to attend school.
D) Segregation in schools remained largely the norm.

Question 2

The Republican governments that controlled the southern states during Reconstruction were

A) supported by some white southerners.
B) usually more corrupt than state governments in the North.
C) generally accepted by most white southerners.
D) dominated by illiterate blacks.

Question 3

In the late nineteenth century, the black leader who continued to press for full citizenship rights for blacks in the United States was

A) Felix Haywood.
B) Benjamin Pap Singleton.
C) Frederick Douglass.
D) Benjamin Franklin.

Question 4

After the Civil War, as far as education was concerned, blacks

A) showed a thirst for knowledge.
B) found most southern whites supportive of their desire to learn.
C) had a higher percentage of school attendance than whites.
D) showed little interest in formal learning.