Author Question: One of the results of emancipation that struck observers in the immediate post-Civil War era was the ... (Read 142 times)

Garrulous · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The main goal that African Americans sought after the Civil War was:

A) education.
B) legislative influence.
C) a high wage job.
D) economic autonomy.

Question 2

Tougaloo, Hampton, and Fisk are examples of:

A) black teaching colleges after the Civil War.
B) places where lynchings took place.
C) towns founded by freed African Americans in the West.
D) missionaries who went South to help in wayside schools.

Question 3

One of the most lasting African American institutions and the first they fully controlled was the:

A) school.
B) Freedmen's Bureau.
C) church.
D) state legislatures.

Question 4

In the aftermath of emancipation, many African-American women:

A) continued working for white planters as domestic servants.
B) experienced changes in gender roles.
C) rarely played the roles white women did.
D) got jobs in northern factories.

Question 5

One of the results of emancipation that struck observers in the immediate post-Civil War era was the freed slaves' desire to:

A) avoid cities.
B) defer to whites.
C) stay on the plantation.
D) move about.