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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, refuse to swear an oath to the Confederacy?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1862.

2. According to historian Donald L. Fixico, how many Indigenous American lived in North American in 1492?
(a) 8 million.
(b) A few million to 15 million.
(c) 25 million.
(d) 10 to 20 million.

3. 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) 19 to 25.
(c) 18 to 24.
(d) 17 to 22.

4. What is the date of the oldest marked grave at Blandford Cemetery?
(a) 1704.
(b) 1702.
(c) 1703.
(d) 1705.

5. How long after General Granger issued his general order in Galveston did the people from the Freedmen's Bureau arrive to provide assistance to Blacks?
(a) About 3 months.
(b) More than 2 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 5 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Richmond, what size is the Robert E. Lee statue?

2. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?

3. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?

4. How many family members did a man named Jeff who attended the Sons of Confederate Veterans celebration have at Blandford Cemetery?

5. How many Black soldiers were killed after surrendering either during or after the Battle of the Crater?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Emancipation Park in Houston?

2. In 1881, what did Jefferson Davis write about the cause of the Civil War?

3. What did Robert E. Lee write in a letter in 1869 about monuments?

4. Why was the Petersburg Ladies' Memorial Association established, and how successful were they in their mission?

5. What myth tells a story about General Gordon Granger?

6. What did Martha at Blandford Cemetery think Robert E. Lee would have felt about all the statues in his honor?

7. What did Lee write to his wife in 1856 about slavery?

8. What did Smith write about the stories told about history at the end of the chapter about Blandford Cemetery?

9. What was the Blandford Church?

10. What was Seneca Village?

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