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

2. When did Al Edwards Sr. attempt to turn Juneteenth into a statewide celebration in Texas?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1984.

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

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

5. How many African men were brought to New Amsterdam as slaves in 1626?
(a) 8.
(b) 39.
(c) 24.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the Black National Anthem?

3. Where is Blandford Cemetery located?

4. How long after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation did General Granger and his forces arrive in Galveston?

5. When did the Dutch form New Amsterdam, which became New York City?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Emancipation Park in Houston?

3. What was Seneca Village?

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

5. What was the Lost Cause movement?

6. What education project was the UDC involved in?

7. What did Damaras Obi, a tour guide in New York City, say about how slavery was central to the U.S. economy?

8. According to historian Jill Lepore, what was the death toll for Africans brought to America?

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

10. Why did Al Edwards Sr. work to make Juneteenth a Texas state holiday?

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