AFST EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
Grandfather clause - ANSWERS-Louisiana
-Permitted only those men who had been eligible to vote before 1867, or their fathers or
grandfathers to vote
-Disenfranchised almost all black voters at once
Literacy tests/ poll taxes - ANSWERS-Mississippi constitutional convention, 1890- Established
voting requirements to disfranchise black men without violating the 15th Amendment:
-Proof of residency
-Payment of $2 for this
Segregation - ANSWERST. McCants Stewart
-Found little discrimination in the South
This was by custom and tradition, if not by law in:
-Schools, hospitals, cemeteries
-Hotels and restaurants discriminated
Jim Crow - ANSWERS-Minstrel show character, Thomas "Daddy" Rice performed in black face.
There were also these laws evolved slowly to enforce white control and domination and black
people acquiesced:
-Churches and social organizations
-Accepted separate seating in places previously closed
-Segregation represented an improvement over exclusion
Become embedded in Southern states
, -Southern States and cities passed hundreds of laws creating a system of racial separation
Homer A. Plessy - ANSWERS-Bought a 1st class ticket and attempted to ride on the coach
designated for white people
-Was only 1/8th black, was arrested for violating the new segregation law.
-Challenged in court- "one drop rule"
Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWERSLouisiana legislature required trains, 1891
Railroad and black people object
Challenged in court
US Supreme Court, 8 to 1 decision- "Separate but equal"
Justice John Marshal Harlan: 14th Amendment was weakened
-No longer afforded black Americans equal treatment under the law
-Jim Crow laws become embedded in Southern states
-Southern States and cities passed hundreds of laws creating a system of racial separation
One drop rule - ANSWERS-Meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black.
-At the beginning of miscegenation between two populations presumed to be racially pure,
quadroons appear in the second generation of continuing mixing with whites, and octoroons in
the third. A quadroon is one-fourth African black and thus easily classed as black in the United
States, yet three of this person's four grandparents are white. An octoroon has seven white
great-grandparents out of eight and usually looks white or almost so.
Seperate but equal - ANSWERS-Inferior facilities or no facilities at all
-Restrooms, drinking fountains, bibles, phone booths, textbooks
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWERSWas weakened by Plessy v. Ferguson
-No longer afforded black Americans equal treatment under the law
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025/2026
Grandfather clause - ANSWERS-Louisiana
-Permitted only those men who had been eligible to vote before 1867, or their fathers or
grandfathers to vote
-Disenfranchised almost all black voters at once
Literacy tests/ poll taxes - ANSWERS-Mississippi constitutional convention, 1890- Established
voting requirements to disfranchise black men without violating the 15th Amendment:
-Proof of residency
-Payment of $2 for this
Segregation - ANSWERST. McCants Stewart
-Found little discrimination in the South
This was by custom and tradition, if not by law in:
-Schools, hospitals, cemeteries
-Hotels and restaurants discriminated
Jim Crow - ANSWERS-Minstrel show character, Thomas "Daddy" Rice performed in black face.
There were also these laws evolved slowly to enforce white control and domination and black
people acquiesced:
-Churches and social organizations
-Accepted separate seating in places previously closed
-Segregation represented an improvement over exclusion
Become embedded in Southern states
, -Southern States and cities passed hundreds of laws creating a system of racial separation
Homer A. Plessy - ANSWERS-Bought a 1st class ticket and attempted to ride on the coach
designated for white people
-Was only 1/8th black, was arrested for violating the new segregation law.
-Challenged in court- "one drop rule"
Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWERSLouisiana legislature required trains, 1891
Railroad and black people object
Challenged in court
US Supreme Court, 8 to 1 decision- "Separate but equal"
Justice John Marshal Harlan: 14th Amendment was weakened
-No longer afforded black Americans equal treatment under the law
-Jim Crow laws become embedded in Southern states
-Southern States and cities passed hundreds of laws creating a system of racial separation
One drop rule - ANSWERS-Meaning that a single drop of "black blood" makes a person a black.
-At the beginning of miscegenation between two populations presumed to be racially pure,
quadroons appear in the second generation of continuing mixing with whites, and octoroons in
the third. A quadroon is one-fourth African black and thus easily classed as black in the United
States, yet three of this person's four grandparents are white. An octoroon has seven white
great-grandparents out of eight and usually looks white or almost so.
Seperate but equal - ANSWERS-Inferior facilities or no facilities at all
-Restrooms, drinking fountains, bibles, phone booths, textbooks
Fourteenth Amendment - ANSWERSWas weakened by Plessy v. Ferguson
-No longer afforded black Americans equal treatment under the law
