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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 dissolution of the Soviet Union occur?

2. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?

3. Who wrote The Clansmen?

4. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?

5. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the significance of the release of the Human Genome Project results in 2000?

3. What was the mission of the National Associatoin of Colored Women and when was this organization formed?

4. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

5. How did the question of race in America change after World War II and during the Cold War?

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

7. How did the issues of race change after Lincoln's assassination?

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

9. What impacts did the women's suffrage movement have on the Black community?

10. Who is Angela Davis? What led Davis to activism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe climate theory in regards to race. When did this theory emerge? Where and from whom did it emerge? How was climate theory used to justify racism?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of Carl Linnaeus's classification of humans into four separate species. How did this promote racist thought? What further hierarchies were then developed? What did they imply?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss legislation and social perspectives on interracial marriage and partnerships in America throughout history. When were laws first enacted that prohibited interracial marriage? How was rape by slave owners different, and why?

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