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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 did Chicago's all-black Eight Infantry Regiment prepare to leave for the war?

2. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," how much of the Yard's workforce was made up of black laborers?

3. In 1919, how many candidates were trying to unseat Big Bill for mayor?

4. How tall was the Chicago Illinois Central station vaulted ceiling in the waiting room?

5. What groups supported a Labor Party candidate for mayor in 1919?

Short Essay Questions

1. Between 1915 and 1917, why did many southern blacks find themselves out of work?

2. Why did blacks help elect Republican William Thompson as mayor in 1915?

3. Why was there a housing shortage in the Black Belt in Thirteen: "Full to Bursting"?

4. In Thirteen: "Full to Bursting," why could blacks not move to different areas than the Black Belt?

5. In Eleven: "A Real Place for Negroes," who would help black migrants when they arrived by train in Chicago?

6. Why wre blacks worried in 1919 about jobs, and what seemed to confirm their worries?

7. In Twelve: "A Job, Any Job," why did Louis Swift and other industrialists like the work of T. Arnold Hill and his staff?

8. How did Mayor Thompson react regarding the riot in Seventeen: "Race Riot"?

9. What were some company-sponsored social groups that were established in Twelve, "A Job, Any Job"?

10. In Ten: "Northern Fever," how did the police in Hattiesburg try to stop the blacks from leaving the South and why did they wish to keep the blacks in the South?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There was racial segregation in Chicago in 1919. How was segregation different in Chicago than in the South? What invisible lines of segregation were there in Chicago? In what way was Chicago as segregated as the South only manifested in different ways?

Essay Topic 2

A Few Red Drops is the story of a race riot in Chicago in 1919. Why is this a non-fiction, historical book rather than historical fiction?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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