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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. When was John Jones elected to political office?

2. What was the name of the Chicago neighborhood where the Urban League Offices were located in 1919?

3. When was a slave catcher killed during the Christiana Resistance?

4. Between what streets was the beach where John and his friends went?

5. What hours did Kaztauskis work his first day at the stockyards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the only ways that Chicagoans could keep cool in the type of heat wave that was occurring in July of 1919?

2. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

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

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

5. Who did John go to the beach with on July 27, 1919, and how did they get to the beach?

6. When was the first strike called at the stockyards and how successful was it?

7. What was the unspoken rule about beaches in Chicago?

8. How did Gustavus Swift change the meat packing industry?

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

10. What happened when the raft that John and his friends were using drifted near the 29th Street beach?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ida Wells-Barnett believed that it was necessary to be as “alert as the watchman on the wall” (34). Under what circumstances did Barnett make that comment? What did she mean by that comment? What is revealed about the challenges of equality for blacks by her statement?

Essay Topic 2

Rumors were rampant before, during, and after the riot. What misinformation was spread by the media? What rumors circulated before during and after the riot? How did misinformation and rumors help cause the riot?

Essay Topic 3

Irish were more likely to join unions, but some blacks did join. What experiences did blacks have with unions? How were they disillusioned regarding unions? Why did blacks become reluctant to join labor unions?

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