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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. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Guest speaker.
(b) Producer.
(c) Writer.
(d) Host.

2. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 21 years.

3. In what year did African American men gain the right to register and vote?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1833.

4. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?
(a) Apprenticeship.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) Sharecropping.
(d) Indentured servitude.

5. In what year did the Compromise put a stop to the process of Reconstruction?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

2. What is the title of Gates's PBS series that traces the ancestry of well-known African Americans?

3. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

4. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?

5. What is another name for the Harlem Renaissance, according to Gates and other scholars?

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