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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which book of the Bible contains the "Curse of Ham" (82) passage?
(a) Revelations.
(b) Exodus.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Leviticus.

3. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?
(a) The 14th.
(b) The 12th.
(c) The 11th.
(d) The 13th.

4. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Stephen Douglas.
(d) Jefferson Davis.

5. The Home Owners' Loan Corporation color-coded maps so mortgage lenders could assess risk. What discriminatory practice did these maps lead to?
(a) Blue-blocking.
(b) Blue-zoning.
(c) Redspotting.
(d) Redlining.

6. Beginning in the 1930s, many Black Americans grew disillusioned with racism in Christian churches. What religion did some Black people turn to?
(a) Islam.
(b) Taoism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Buddhism.

7. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?
(a) He was an effective leader.
(b) He was not in favor of racial equality.
(c) He was a passionate abolitionist.
(d) He was a slave-owner.

8. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Louisiana.

9. How many people died in the Civil War?
(a) 650-850,000.
(b) 500-650,000.
(c) 400-500,000.
(d) 200-400,000.

10. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) James Meridith.
(c) Ronald Frye.
(d) Cassius Clay.

11. What was the outcome of the Methodist General Conference of 1808?
(a) Regional congregations were required to oppose slavery in every parish.
(b) Regional congreations could make their own decision on the issue of slavery.
(c) Regional congregations were required to support slavery in every parish.
(d) Regional congregations could not take a public position on the issue of slavery.

12. What was the term for the bloody racial conflict that gripped the South during 1919?
(a) The Summer of Death.
(b) The Bleak Summer.
(c) The Red Summer.
(d) The Summer of Ruin.

13. Who was the first black U.S. senator?
(a) Charles Summer.
(b) Blanche K. Bruce.
(c) Hiram Revels.
(d) Thaddeus Stevens.

14. What was the nickname for the state of Kansas during the years leading up to the Civil War?
(a) Wild Kansas.
(b) Lawless Kansas.
(c) Bloody Kansas.
(d) Fair Kansas.

15. What led to the split of the Methodist Episcopal Church?
(a) A slave-owning bishop refused to either resign or give up his slaves.
(b) A slave-owning parishioner was excommunicated from the church.
(c) The church congregation argued over a piece of political legislation.
(d) The church congregation disagreed on the question of segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people attended the March on Washington DC for Job and Freedom?

2. What impact did the Great Depression have on Christian churches?

3. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?

4. What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

5. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?

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