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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 immigrants and blacks leave their Chicago homes to fight in the Great War?

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

3. In Fifteen: "Tensions Rising," when did someone explode a bomb in a black family's home?

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

5. What was Richard E. Parker's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was different about dress and behavior of Northern and Southern blacks in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect"?

2. What happened when the early shifts at the Stock Yard ended mid-afternoon in Seventeen: "Race Riot"?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. Before the United States entered the war, how much meat did American meat packers export?

9. In 1917 what call did President Woodrow Wilson make and how did immigrants and blacks respond?

10. What happened at the Argo corn refinery in July of 1919?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both the title of the book and Carl Sandburg’s poem reference “red drops of blood.” What do the red drops of blood symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Gustavus Swift entered the butchering process as an apprentice in 1855. He went on to become one of the major meat packers at Chicago's Union Stock Yard. What goals did Swift have? What problems did he have to solve to meet his goals? How did he have to use ingenuity to solve his problems?

Essay Topic 3

Southern blacks were met at the train depot in Chicago by blacks and white who helped them assimilate into life in Chicago. What groups helped Southern blacks assimilate into life in Chicago? What did those efforts reveal about black solidarity?

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