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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Educational.
(b) Legal.
(c) Medical.
(d) Agricultural.

2. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?
(a) 5%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 20%.

3. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1901.

4. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Brown.
(d) Cornell.

5. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1932.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?

2. Gates states that the phenomenon of the New Negro movement culminated in "the birth of" (xv) what?

3. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?

4. Gates asserts that in the two years directly following the Civil War, African Americans became keenly aware of the link between economic advancement and what?

5. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?

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