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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many elective offices did African Americans take in the early 1870's?
(a) 4 out of 8.
(b) 4 out of 9.
(c) 5 out of 8.
(d) 4 out of 10.

2. What type of contract did Aaron have to sign to get work?
(a) A sharecropping labor contract.
(b) A farmhand contract.
(c) A free worker contract.
(d) A slave contract.

3. What does Butterfield say was everything for the settlers of the county?
(a) Thy land.
(b) Money.
(c) Honor.
(d) Religion.

4. When did Thomas Bauskett's son decide to sell his slaves and plantations?
(a) 1851.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1854.

5. What did Butch establish himself as where he was first institutionalized?
(a) The loving boy.
(b) The underdog.
(c) The most violent of the boys.
(d) The shy boy.

6. How many seats of the legislature did African Americans take in the early 1870's?
(a) 126 out of 156.
(b) 116 out of 156.
(c) 106 out of 156.
(d) 96 out of 156.

7. What did Aaron lose because of the 1876 election?
(a) His freedom.
(b) His horse.
(c) His right to vote.
(d) His right to win land.

8. What did Pickens see South Carolina as having the power and right to do?
(a) Use slaves as cattle.
(b) Nullify federal laws.
(c) Make its own moral code.
(d) Secede from the Union.

9. What did the whites plan to prevent the African Americans from voting culminate in?
(a) The Edgefield Massacre.
(b) The Market Massacre.
(c) The Hamburg Massacre.
(d) The Riverdale Massacre.

10. When did Aaron marry?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1882.

11. Who did Aaron marry after his first separation?
(a) Lucyl Mobley Pou.
(b) Marie Mobley Pou.
(c) Sophia Mobley Pou.
(d) Tilda Mobley Pou.

12. What was the name of the Major being chased down in a race?
(a) Cunningham.
(b) Humn.
(c) Marshal.
(d) Herman.

13. What was Butch's IQ?
(a) 65.
(b) 100.
(c) 120.
(d) 130.

14. How many slaves did Bauskett own?
(a) 159.
(b) 245.
(c) 563.
(d) 221.

15. When did Willie James become part of a gang?
(a) At 12.
(b) At 9.
(c) At 8.
(d) At 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened in the late 1860's?

2. When was Willie Bosket born?

3. How old was Willie James when he enrolled in school?

4. When were the people numbed toward violence?

5. What did Willie James do after he started to attend school?

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