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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 a Mrs. Hunter tell her son to move North for better wages in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

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

3. In Thirteen: "Full to Bursting," how many people did a rooming-house owner house in a three-month period?

4. When a mob attacked a black man at a train station in Fourteen: "Respectability and Respect," how many days in jail did the black man get?

5. When did Robert Abbott establish the Chicago Defender?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the goal of the Chicago Real Estate Board and how did they try to achieve their goals?

7. 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?

8. In Seventeen: "Race Riot," what happened when black bathers stormed from the 26th Street to the 29th Street beach?

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

10. Who was running against Bill Thompson in 1919?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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