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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, how much of the total wealthy in the U.S. was owned by Black Americans?

2. According to a woman named Temple Cummins, how long did her master intend to delay telling the slaves they were free?

3. How many sets of Confederate remains did the Petersburg Ladies' Memorial Association find?

4. When were the people of Seneca Village removed by force?

5. When was the African Burial Ground declared a National Historic Landmark?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What education project was the UDC involved in?

4. What was Seneca Village?

5. What was the Lost Cause movement?

6. What was the Blandford Church?

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

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

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

10. What is Emancipation Park in Houston?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Slaves had little control over their lives and day-to-day activities. How did the enslaved lack agency in their lives? How was their humanity abused by this loss of agency?

Essay Topic 2

A letter Lee wrote to his wife in 1856 was often used to show that Lee did not fight for the Confederacy to “protect slavery” (128). Why was the letter not proof that Lee fought for other reasons than to protect slavery?

Essay Topic 3

A tour guide at Monticello commented that "history is the story of the past using all the available facts” (41). How did the presentation of the history of Jefferson’s life change at Monticello? What facts were presented that were not presented earlier? What facts became available over time that were not available earlier? How did nostalgia and memory influence the story that was told about Jefferson previously?

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