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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. Who wrote The Clansmen?
2. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?
3. When was the verdict read in the O. J. Simpson trial?
4. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?
5. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?
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. How did the question of race in America change after World War II and during the Cold War?
3. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?
4. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?
5. What were the impacts of the War on Drugs on the racist issues in America?
6. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?
7. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?
8. What impacts did the women's suffrage movement have on the Black community?
9. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?
10. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the viewpoints of Voltaire and Buffon. What line of thought does each of these thinkers express? Why? How did their perceptions of Blacks differ generally?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the influences of literature, music, television, and film on racist ideas in America. What are some examples from the text that demonstrate both positive and negative impacts on racist thought from entertainment? How have different forms of entertainment served to strengthen and/or weaken stereotypes of Black Americans?
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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