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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Ferdinand Barnett when he opened his own law office?

2. When was the black-owned Jesse Binga Bank opened?

3. How many acres was the Union Stockyards in Six: "Waste Matters"?

4. How far away was a white man throwing rocks at John and his friends on the raft?

5. In Eight: "A Stone's Throw," when did Michael Donnelly organize a strike?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the job of a cattle butcher in Six: "Waste Matters"?

2. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?

3. What were homes like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

4. How many blacks were employed by the Union Stock Yard after the Civil War?

5. What type of work did Irishmen perform when the Chicago canal was built?

6. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

7. What was Packingtown like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

8. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

9. Why did the lives of blacks get more difficult in the 1850s, and what was something that they did about it?

10. Who was Ida B. Wells?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lower class blacks and whites had many of the same problems. What problems were similar among lower class blacks and whites? Why did their problems not unite them? How and why did their problems put them at odds with one another?

Essay Topic 2

When many Blacks fought in the Great War, jobs opened in Chicago, and many Southern whites migrated to Chicago. What challenges did Southern blacks have to overcome to even get to Chicago? What did they have to learn and what challenges did they have to overcome once they arrived in Chicago?

Essay Topic 3

Blacks gained the right to vote through the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. How did blacks use their power to vote? How did the blacks vote? What did the way that blacks voted convey about the power of the vote?

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