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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 was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?

2. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?

3. What year was it when Angela Davis's friends were killed in a church bombing in her hometown?

4. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?

5. Who wrote The Clansmen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the issue of land distribution following the Civil War significant?

3. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?

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

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

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

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

8. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impacts of the War on Drugs on racism in America. Statistically, what disparities can be seen between Blacks and Whites within the prison system? What justifications are used to explain these disparities? How did the War on Drugs serve to develop an even greater racist culture in the U.S.?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life, career, and work of W. E. B. Du Bois. When and where was Du Bois born? What views and ideals did Du Bois embrace early in his career? How did those ideals change over the course of his life? Why did they change? What are the successes and failures of Du Bois?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the life, career, and works of Angela Davis. When and where was Davis born? How did this setting influence Davis's later life and career? What were the inciting moments that motivated Davis as an activist?

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