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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Sherman's Special Field Order promise black families?
(a) Horses.
(b) Money.
(c) Farmland.
(d) Cows.

2. What was an octoroon?
(a) A person who was 1/8th white.
(b) A person who was 1/8th black.
(c) A person who was 1/8th Hispanic.
(d) A person who was 1/8th Native American.

3. Who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK?
(a) Nathan Bedford Forest.
(b) Samuel Green.
(c) William Joseph Simmons.
(d) James A. Colescott.

4. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?
(a) Absolution.
(b) Reclamation.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Vindication.

5. How did Columbus view the native inhabitants of the Americas?
(a) As fellow citizens.
(b) As skilled laborers.
(c) As spiritual equals.
(d) As potential slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the impact of the Dred Scott Decision?

2. What motivated George Pepperdine to found his university?

3. How many Black people served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I?

4. Where did transatlantic ships carrying enslaved persons usually make port?

5. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?

(see the answer key)

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