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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 did the first enslaved Africans arrive in America?

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

3. When did former Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson explain that slavery was an apprenticeship for savage races?

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

5. When did Laura Martin Rose, historian and president of the UDC's Mississippi chapter, publish The Ku Klux Klan; or, Invisible Empire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Emancipation Park in Houston?

4. When was slavery introduced to Manhattan and when was it abolished in New York State?

5. What was the power of the Emancipation Proclamation, and what power did it have?

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

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

8. What education project was the UDC involved in?

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

10. Who did Smith take with him to the Sons of Confederate Veterans ( SCV) commemoration celebration?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The song"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is known as the Black National Anthem. How and why did this song become known as the Black National Anthem?

Essay Topic 3

After the Civil War, there was a movement to recast the Civil War as a fight for "family, honor, and heritage" (140). Why was there a movement when the war ended to recast the Civil War as a fight for family, honor, and heritage, rather than to keep slavery as an institution?

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