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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. How much were teachers paid monthly in Chicago in Ten: "Northern Fever"?

2. At the end of Seventeen: "Race Riot, how many of those who attacked blacks were arrested?

3. In 1916, how much canned beef did American meat packers export?

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. In 1919, what was the membership of Olivet Baptist?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the Urban League and YMCA help blacks adapt to life in Chicago in Eleven: "A Real Place for Negroes"?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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