View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blandford Cemetery.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did former Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson explain that slavery was an apprenticeship for savage races?
(a) February 22, 1896.
(b) March 9, 1896.
(c) April 11, 1896.
(d) May 18, 1896.

2. What General and his men were urged by the Richmond Examiner to "butcher every negro that Grant sends against your brave troops? (131)?
(a) General Mahone.
(b) General Chestnut.
(c) General Starke.
(d) General Allen.

3. When did Laura Martin Rose, historian and president of the UDC's Mississippi chapter, publish The Ku Klux Klan; or, Invisible Empire?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1903.

4. What was the average age for a Civil War soldier according to a man named Jason at the SCV celebration?
(a) 19 to 25.
(b) 17 to 22.
(c) 20 to 30.
(d) 18 to 24.

5. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1889.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the transatlantic slave trade outlawed?

2. When did the State of Louisiana take over running Angola?

3. When was the first Memorial Day celebrated on the grounds of Blandford Cemetery?

4. Of the soldiers buried at Blandford, about how many were identified?

5. Where is Whitney Plantation located?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 173 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample