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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fifteen: Tension Rising to Seventeen: Race Riot.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did John Jones and other Chicagoans create a plan of defense against slave catchers?
(a) November 1850.
(b) October 1850.
(c) September 1850.
(d) August 1850.

2. What hours did Kaztauskis work his first day at the stockyards?
(a) 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(b) 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
(c) 5 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(d) 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

3. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1879.

4. In 1870, how many blacks called Chicago home?
(a) 3,487.
(b) About 2,900.
(c) 5,293.
(d) Nearly 3,700.

5. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," how much of the Yard's workforce was made up of black laborers?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?

2. How many people lived in Chicago in 1837?

3. What group did not like Big Bill because of his anti-catholic propaganda?

4. How much were teachers paid monthly in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

5. In 1916, how much canned beef did American meat packers export?

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