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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. By what percent did immigration to the United States drop by between 1914 and 1917?
(a) 70%.
(b) 85%.
(c) 65%.
(d) 90%.
2. In Ten: "Northern Fever," where did Robert Horton have his barbershop?
(a) Movile.
(b) Hattiesburg.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Meridian.
3. When did most of the growth of the black population in the Black Belt occur?
(a) 1916-1918.
(b) 1915-1917.
(c) 1914 to 1916.
(d) 1914 to 1920.
4. What was the name of the union newspaper in 1919?
(a) Solidarity and Freedom.
(b) Solidarity Press.
(c) New Majority.
(d) Labor and Workers.
5. What was the name of the man who killed Eugene Williams?
(a) Steven Davis.
(b) John Martin.
(c) Daniel Wyatt.
(d) George Stauber.
Short Answer Questions
1. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?
2. In 1919, what percent of the vote did Thompson gain to be reelected as mayor of Chicago?
3. How many blacks were employed at the Yard in 1918?
4. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," how much of the Yard's workforce was made up of black laborers?
5. In 1919, when did a group of boys scuffle in Washington Park?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the goal of the Chicago Real Estate Board and how did they try to achieve their goals?
2. Why wre blacks worried in 1919 about jobs, and what seemed to confirm their worries?
3. What were some company-sponsored social groups that were established in Twelve, "A Job, Any Job"?
4. What was different about dress and behavior of Northern and Southern blacks in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect"?
5. In Eleven: "A Real Place for Negroes," who would help black migrants when they arrived by train in Chicago?
6. In 1917, what was Louis Swift's goal regarding unions, and what strategy did he use that his father used?
7. Why did blacks help elect Republican William Thompson as mayor in 1915?
8. In March 1919, what did A. L. Jackson say about the mindset of the returned black soldier?
9. What happened in the Black Belt at the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot"?
10. Before the United States entered the war, how much meat did American meat packers export?
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