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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. What did Andrew Johnson do to a lot of Lincoln's promises?

2. Where was Angela Davis from?

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Carmichael would rather be called than "afraid"?

4. Where did Angela Davis begin teaching in 1968?

5. When was the Civil Rights Act passed in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when President Harry Truman urged Congress to pass a civil rights act in 1948?

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that Black people were doing even as Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator?

3. What did President Woodrow Wilson fear about Black soldiers' experiences in Europe during WWI?

4. Which politician did Richard Nixon model his run for the presidency from, and why?

5. What did Tarzan symbolize for White people?

6. What did the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 rule?

7. What approach did Booker T. Washington take to trying to gain more equal treatment for Blacks?

8. According to Reynolds and Kendi, what was a drawback of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

9. What new ideas did W.E.B. Du Bois embrace later in his life in Chapter 19?

10. Why was Angela Davis charged with murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, affect the public view of slavery at the time of its publication? How did Blacks in general view the book? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What kind of criticism and negative consequences did Angela Davis experience from people at the highest level of political power as a result of her activism? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How and why did White people in positions of power in the earliest days of the settling of America, like Virginia Governor William Berkeley, sow divisions between Whites, Native Americans, and Black people? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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