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Quiz for Document 20–2: Gunner Jesse Blake, Narrative of the Wilmington “Rebellion” of 1898

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question 20.4

1. According to Blake, why did the “better element” want “to establish ‘White Supremacy’ in the city, the state and throughout the South” in the Wilmington “Rebellion” of 1898?

Because businesses run by African Americans were cutting deeply into their profits

Because they wanted to remove “ignorant” African Americans from government positions and end the alleged assaults of “black rapists” on white women

Because they thought that African Americans had installed a discriminatory government

Because African Americans had refused to work on cotton plantations for wages

Question 20.5

2. What claim in Alex Manly’s editorial sparked the “rebellion” of some Wilmington whites?

That the black population should receive reparations for slavery

That the Democratic Party should be eliminated

That claims of rape ignored the reality of consensual sex

That all schools should be racially integrated

Question 20.6

3. Why did the mass meeting of white citizens seek a change in Wilmington’s political leadership?

They opposed high taxes.

They believed African Americans were inherently inferior.

They objected to patronage practices.

They alleged election fraud.