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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: The Defeat of Reconstruction: Black Codes, Jim Crow, and Disenfranchisement — Drill 17 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 3: The Practice of Freedom. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies exam questions on the defeat of Reconstruction, Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and disenfranchisement. These AP exam prep questions cover Plessy v. Ferguson, W.E.B. Du Bois’s double consciousness, and the legal structures that sustained racial inequality into the twentieth century.
Passage
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
Questions in This Drill
- In the passage above, Du Bois uses the phrase “the color line” to refer to
- Which of the following best explains how the Black Codes enacted by Southern states after the Civil War represented continuity with the antebellum slave system?
- Following the end of Reconstruction, Southern states employed several mechanisms to disenfranchise Black voters. Which of the following was NOT among those legal mechanisms?
- In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court majority upheld Louisiana’s Separate Car Act primarily by arguing that
- Compared to the period of Radical Reconstruction, the period following the Compromise of 1877 was characterized by