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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Chapter 4, Pud, Don't Step on My Reputation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Pickens see South Carolina as having the power and right to do?
(a) Nullify federal laws.
(b) Use slaves as cattle.
(c) Make its own moral code.
(d) Secede from the Union.

2. What helped create the climate of general violence in the country?
(a) Drinking and lack of jobs.
(b) Firearms and economic downturn.
(c) The economic downturn.
(d) Drinking and firearms.

3. How many more murders than Massachusetts did the county have up until the 1930's?
(a) 12 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 4 times.
(d) 2 times.

4. When was Edgefield conquered by the Union Army according to Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) June 21, 1865.
(b) March 21, 1866
(c) March 21, 1865.
(d) June 21, 1866.

5. What did the whites call the trouble-making black youth of the start of the 20th century?
(a) "The New Slave."
(b) "The New Trouble."
(c) "The Old Slave."
(d) "The New Negro."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the violence in the county originate from according to Butterfield?

2. What was the name of the slave Thomas Bauskett gave his son?

3. What was the name of the Major being chased down in a race?

4. Why did the blacks of the early 20th century stop paying much attention to the difference between law and lawlessness according to Butterfield?

5. When was Pickens elected governor of South Carolina?

(see the answer key)

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