Chapter 18

Quiz for Document 18-4: New York World, New York Negroes Stage Silent Parade of Protest (1917)

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Question 1

The 1917 article in the New York World titled New York Negroes Stage Silent Parade of Protest describes the orderly parade of African American men, women, and children who marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City carrying signs to protest against the persistence of lynching in the United States. The messages on the marchers’ signs indicates that they are using which of the following strategies to resist racist attitudes and violence in the 1910s?A. Marchers relied on a show of anger and power to deter future racist threats and violence.
B. Marchers displayed their respectability and contributions to argue that they deserved equal treatment.
C. Marchers emphasized their subordination in order to justify their pleas for special treatment and consideration.
D. Marchers expressed a veiled threat of retaliatory violence against whites if the government did not pass an anti-lynch law.

Question 2

Which of the following statements best describes the significance of protesters’ multiple references to the phrase “make the world safe for democracy?”A. African Americans quoted the words of the Declaration of Independence in order to connect their demands to the history of American liberty.
B. Protesters promoted democracy because it was still seen by most Americans as a historically questionable principle.
C. Protesters wanted President Wilson to apply his well-known phrase regarding the war in Europe to all the citizens of the United States.
D. Radical anarcho-syndicalists coined the phrase as a protest against all formal structures of bourgeois government.

Question 3

White violence against African American citizens during the World War I era may have been exacerbated by the socio-economic and demographic phenomenon known to historians as the GreatA. Awakening.
B. Disappointment.
C. Depression.
D. Migration.