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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. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Benjamin Lundy.

2. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1993.

3. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) Alexander Stephens.
(d) Thaddeus Stevens.

4. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) July 21, 1861.
(b) March 6, 1857.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) April 15, 1884.

5. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) June 25, 1890.
(d) January 1, 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first time?

2. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?

3. Along with Huey P. Newton, who penned the ten-point platform for the newly founded Black Panther Party In 1966?

4. Who filmed the brutal attack of Rodney King?

5. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led William Lloyd Garrison to say of Abraham Lincoln that he did not have "a drop of antislavery blood in his veins" (217)?

2. When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place and what were its impacts?

3. What is eugenics and how does it apply to racism?

4. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

5. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

6. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?

7. What discussion does the author make regarding The Cosby Show?

8. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

9. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?

10. What led to the L.A. Riots in the early 1990s? How did the riots impact race relations?

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