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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many Union soldiers died at the prison established at Charleston's Washington Race Course and Jackey Club?
(a) Nearly 260.
(b) 274.
(c) Almost 300.
(d) 229.

3. When was a slave market established on Wall Street?
(a) 1711.
(b) 1709.
(c) 1703.
(d) 1717.

4. When did complete abolition come to New York?
(a) 1842.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1839.
(d) 1841.

5. When was Blandford Church deconsecrated?
(a) 1806.
(b) 1802.
(c) 1809.
(d) 1811.

6. During a parade for the Martyrs of the Race Course, how many black schoolchildren led the procession?
(a) 5,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 7,000.
(d) 3,000.

7. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, how much of the total wealthy in the U.S. was owned by Black Americans?
(a) 0.4 percent.
(b) 0.7 percent.
(c) 0.2 percent.
(d) 0.5 percent.

8. When Lincoln ran for the presidency in 1860, in how many states did slavery exist?
(a) 15.
(b) 24.
(c) 11.
(d) 19.

9. When was Mr. Richard Poplar, a Black gentleman, said to have joined the Susex Dragoons?
(a) May 1861.
(b) March 1861.
(c) February 1861.
(d) April 1861.

10. When Smith attended a Juneteenth celebration, how long had Kathy Tiernan been organizing the programs?
(a) 10 years.
(b) Half a dozen years.
(c) A decade.
(d) 12 years.

11. When was the first Memorial Day celebrated on the grounds of Blandford Cemetery?
(a) June 1866.
(b) May 1866.
(c) August 1866.
(d) July 1866.

12. How many free and enslaved people are buried at the African Burial Ground National Monument?
(a) 419.
(b) 394.
(c) 278.
(d) 511.

13. 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 Allen.
(b) General Starke.
(c) General Mahone.
(d) General Chestnut.

14. When were the people of Seneca Village removed by force?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1859.

15. When was the African Burial Ground declared a National Historic Landmark?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1991.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, refuse to swear an oath to the Confederacy?

2. When did the first enslaved Africans arrive in America?

3. What was the name of the man who dressed as General Granger at a Juneteenth program?

4. How long after Robert E. Lee surrendered did General Granger and his forces arrive in Galveston?

5. Before Lincoln was inaugurated, how many states seceded from the Union?

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