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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months passed between the end of the Chicago race riots and the start of "1919's most murderous acts of violence" (78) that took place in Arkansas?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

2. The May Day parade in Cleveland ended with how many people having been arrested?
(a) 116.
(b) 43.
(c) 4.
(d) 227.

3. Just under how many years after the first Red Scare in America did the second Red Scare take place?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 70.
(d) 50.

4. In what month of 1919 did US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer create a new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?
(a) August.
(b) May.
(c) March.
(d) December.

5. In what year did the Bolsheviks take over a particular country and establish a Communist dictatorship?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1917.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most famous male anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

2. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?

3. What system replaced slavery while at the same time doing little to improve the lives of those living within its structure?

4. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and served as head of state from 1917 to 1922?

5. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did the words of W.E.B. Du Bois have on black Americans returning from serving in World War I?

2. In what way are American freedoms shown to have ebbed during the first Red Scare?

3. Who coined the phrase the Red Summer and why?

4. What was the event referred to as "the Great Migration" (67) and for what reasons did it occur?

5. How long did the tragic period entitled the Red Summer last?

6. What world event occurred in 1917 that helped to fuel the first Red Scare?

7. What does Sandler believe was the primary motivation behind Senator Joseph McCarthy's decision to lead the second Red Scare?

8. What action did the NAACP take against four major white newspapers in 1919 and why?

9. How did the Red Scare get its title?

10. What role did the black press play in the Great Migration of the early twentieth century?

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