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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the whites of South Carolina fear?
(a) That the newly freed slaves would enslave them.
(b) That there was no longer any profit in farming.
(c) That the newly freed slaves would leave the state.
(d) That there was no mechanism to control African Americans.

2. Where was Butch sent after appearing in children's court?
(a) The Children's Center in Washington..
(b) The Children's Center in Harlem.
(c) The Children's Center in Jersey.
(d) The Children's Center in Queens.

3. What did Pud take from a white farmer as he was threatened with punishment?
(a) The cane.
(b) The whip.
(c) The gun.
(d) The fork.

4. When did Butch rob a liquor store?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1957.

5. Who did James become enamored with?
(a) A waitress.
(b) A cook.
(c) A farm hand.
(d) A nurse.

6. When was Willie James born?
(a) March 6, 1943.
(b) March 6, 1942.
(c) March 6, 1941.
(d) March 6, 1940.

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

8. Why did slavery add to the culture of violence?
(a) Violence was needed to enforce bondage.
(b) Slaves were not paid.
(c) Violence was all they knew.
(d) Psychological help for the slave was non-existant.

9. When did Willie James become part of a gang?
(a) At 8.
(b) At 6.
(c) At 12.
(d) At 9.

10. Who did Pickens sell his slaves to?
(a) Alfred Dearing.
(b) Marcus Roberts.
(c) AaronGrubber.
(d) Frederik Samuelson.

11. Who did Butch try to sell the pictures to that he stole from the lab where he worked?
(a) To a trucker.
(b) To a Club.
(c) A pawnshop.
(d) To a magazine.

12. When was the first daughter of the slave born that Thomas gave his son?
(a) 1846
(b) 1848.
(c) 1847
(d) 1849

13. When did Thomas Bauskett's son decide to sell his slaves and plantations?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1851.
(d) 1853.

14. Where did Butch move with his pregnant wife?
(a) Austin.
(b) Washington.
(c) Milwaukee.
(d) New York.

15. What did the whites of South Carolina become, thanks to the slave trade?
(a) The most hated men in America.
(b) The best farmers in America.
(c) The richest people in America.
(d) The laziest men in America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Butch's IQ?

2. When did Aaron marry?

3. When did the state and federal elections of the late 1860's take place?

4. When did Willie get a job as laborer?

5. What did the whites plan to prevent the African Americans from voting culminate in?

(see the answer keys)

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