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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. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?
(a) Workers would get a 50 cent an hour increase.
(b) Increased wages and overtime for anytime worked beyond eight hours in a day.
(c) Wages would be increased, but there would be no overtime pay.
(d) Wages would be frozen.

2. When did the union organize the people of Packingtown to tell their story to the judge appointed by President Wilson?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1917.

3. When did Judge Alschuler increase wages in the packing industry for a second time?
(a) April 1919.
(b) February 1919.
(c) March 1919.
(d) January 1919.

4. What could be smelled in John's family home?
(a) Animal blood.
(b) Burnt street meat and smoke.
(c) Garbage baking on the sidewalk.
(d) Fishy garbage.

5. What was the last name of John's friends?
(a) Davison.
(b) Williams.
(c) Martin.
(d) Andrews.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1918, how many black migrants were settled into Chicago?

2. What was the weather like on the day that John Turner Harris's life changed?

3. When did John Jones and other Chicagoans create a plan of defense against slave catchers?

4. When did Ferdinand Barnett start the first black newspaper in Chicago?

5. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?

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