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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. At the time Smith wrote How the Word Is Passed, how many Blacks lived in Texas?
(a) 4.1 million.
(b) 2.8 million.
(c) 3.5 million.
(d) 3.3 million.

2. By 1860, what was the value of the nearly four million enslaved people valued at?
(a) $4.6 billion.
(b) $2.8 million.
(c) $3.5 billion.
(d) $4.9 million.

3. When was the land for Emancipation Park in Houston purchased?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1872.

4. How long after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation did General Granger and his forces arrive in Galveston?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the average age for a Civil War soldier according to a man named Jason at the SCV celebration?

3. When was Blandford Church deconsecrated?

4. When did members of Petersburg's free Black community purchase the People's Memorial Cemetery?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to a woman named Tempie Cummins and her mother after freedom was declared?

2. What did Heidi Christensen say about the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)?

3. What is the history of the Black National Anthem?

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

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

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

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

8. What did Kevin M. Levin write about the Battle of the Crater and how Black soldiers were treated?

9. What considerations did Smith feel needed to be made when studying history or celebrating significant moments of the past?

10. What was the Lost Cause movement?

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