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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sherman's Special Field Order promise black families?
(a) Money.
(b) Farmland.
(c) Cows.
(d) Horses.

2. What was the term for the bloody racial conflict that gripped the South during 1919?
(a) The Summer of Ruin.
(b) The Red Summer.
(c) The Bleak Summer.
(d) The Summer of Death.

3. What was the impact of the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) Slavery was outlawed within the northestern states.
(b) Enslaved people could not use the legal system to petition for their freedom.
(c) Enslaved people could enroll in public schools that served white citizens.
(d) Slavery was overturned within certain Southern states.

4. Which professions were excluded from receiving Social Security?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Factory workers.
(c) Domestic workers.
(d) Politicians.

5. What impact did the Great Depression have on Christian churches?
(a) It increased their congregations and led to new conversations.
(b) It inspired their parishioners to start additional missionary programs.
(c) It overwhelmed their aid programs and they ran out of resources.
(d) It drove people away from Christianity and depleted their numbers.

6. What term was used the describe the mixing of different races?
(a) Mongrelization.
(b) Regionalization.
(c) Revitalization.
(d) Acclimatization.

7. What was the outcome of the Methodist General Conference of 1808?
(a) Regional congregations were required to support slavery in every parish.
(b) Regional congregations were required to oppose slavery in every parish.
(c) Regional congregations could not take a public position on the issue of slavery.
(d) Regional congreations could make their own decision on the issue of slavery.

8. According to Tisby, what text did white Christians primarily use to justify slavery?
(a) The Book of Mormon.
(b) The US Constitution.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Bill of Rights.

9. How many Black people served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I?
(a) About 350,000.
(b) About 300,000.
(c) About 250,000.
(d) About 200,000.

10. Who was the first black U.S. senator?
(a) Thaddeus Stevens.
(b) Blanche K. Bruce.
(c) Hiram Revels.
(d) Charles Summer.

11. According to Tisby, what political system was believed to be associated with the civil rights movement?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Authoritarianism.

12. What was the term for the system that allowed Southern states to "hire out" prisoners to private companies?
(a) Indentured servitude.
(b) Chattel slavery.
(c) Prisoner-rental.
(d) Convict-leasing.

13. According to Tisby, in what organization did MLK start his activist career?
(a) Fellowship of Reconciliation.
(b) Regional Council of Negro Leadership.
(c) The Montgomery Improvement Society.
(d) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

14. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) Stephen Douglas.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

15. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Cassius Clay.
(c) James Meridith.
(d) Ronald Frye.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the phrase, "Black Power"?

2. What was the term used for the "the "massive migration of whites to the suburbs" (126) to escape racial integration?

3. What rights were granted by the 15th Amendment?

4. Which northern city was chosen as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sothern Christian Leadership Conference?

5. Which book of the Bible contains the "Curse of Ham" (82) passage?

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