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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Leroy Percy eventually get a seat in Senate despite his popularity decline?
(a) The seat was left to him in the dead senator's will.
(b) He was voted in by the people.
(c) No one else wanted it.
(d) A senator died and he won a special election.

2. Who does Hoover select as the chairman of the Colored Advisory Committee?
(a) William Percy.
(b) LeRoy Percy.
(c) Governor Simpson.
(d) Robert Moton.

3. What two things did Humphrey unsuccessfully attempt to do to change the mouth of the Mississippi River?
(a) Bridges and canals.
(b) Creating a new river and a dam.
(c) Dredges and bridges.
(d) Canals and dredges.

4. What event did the Boston Club pay a large role in?
(a) The impending flood waters.
(b) Rebuliding the city of New Orleans.
(c) Harvesting the area.
(d) Planning Mardi Gras.

5. How are claimants with political and social connections treated differently from the others awaiting compensation?
(a) They are given double the amounts.
(b) They are paid off in special deals.
(c) They didn't have to wait for their money.
(d) They didn't need the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two things did river height depend on?

2. How did Humphrey prove himself to be in combat?

3. How does the levee camp become a slave camp?

4. What does the New Orleans' financial elite spend a lot of time doing?

5. What happened in the Mississippi region between 1884-1889?

(see the answer key)

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