In his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech, Booker T. Washington
A. called for political and civil rights for black Americans.
B. criticized the federal government for abandoning Southern blacks.
C. argued that blacks should honor their African forebears.
D. stated that blacks should give up in seeking equality with whites.
E. called for tacit acceptance of the emerging system of racial segregation.
Answer: E
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WHS AP US History Chapter 15
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- In the 1890s, pressure in the South to restrict black voting rights came from
- During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Southern agriculture
- Advocates of the "New South"
- Congressional Reconstruction might have been more effective if
- The elections of 1876 saw
- Congressional passage of the Enforcement Acts in 1870-1871
- The Alabama claims
- The Panic of 1873
- In 1868, Ulysses S. Grant
- In the South, the crop-lien system
- During Reconstruction, the black labor force worked
- Black sharecropping
- During Reconstruction, the Southern school system
- During Reconstruction, Southern African-American officeholders
- During Reconstruction, the term "Scalawags" referred to
- In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he
- The Tenure of Office Act
- In 1867, Congressional plans for Reconstruction
- In the 1860s, Black Codes were
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- President Abraham Lincoln's "ten percent" plan for the South referred to
- The Freedmen's Bureau
- In 1865, Southern blacks defined "freedom" as