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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. In 1919, when did a group of boys scuffle in Washington Park?

2. What was a judges decision regarding disputes between packers and their workers in 1918?

3. On June 30, where were two brothers chased from?

4. What group did not like Big Bill because of his anti-catholic propaganda?

5. When did the Chicago Defender recommend that Southern blacks come North for employment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What union was established in 1917, and who were the leaders?

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

5. In 1917, what was Louis Swift's goal regarding unions, and what strategy did he use that his father used?

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

7. In March 1919, what did A. L. Jackson say about the mindset of the returned black soldier?

8. What was the situation throughout 1918 as migrants continued to move to Chicago?

9. 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?

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

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

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 3

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?

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