The Color of Compromise Test | Final Test - Easy

Jemar Tisby
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Color of Compromise Test | Final Test - Easy

Jemar Tisby
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Martin Luther King, Jr. write "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1961.

2. How many Black people served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I?
(a) About 350,000.
(b) About 250,000.
(c) About 200,000.
(d) About 300,000.

3. How did church leaders in 1950s Georgia propose to "Keep Kirkwood White" (145)?
(a) By refusing to allow Black children to attend local schools.
(b) By staging a letter-writing campaign to a local newspaper.
(c) By urging parishioners not to sell homes to black people.
(d) By voting for politicians who supported segregation.

4. How many people attended the March on Washington DC for Job and Freedom?
(a) 250,000.
(b) 200,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 100,000.

5. What impact did the Great Depression have on Christian churches?
(a) It drove people away from Christianity and depleted their numbers.
(b) It overwhelmed their aid programs and they ran out of resources.
(c) It increased their congregations and led to new conversations.
(d) It inspired their parishioners to start additional missionary programs.

6. What did Martin Luther King, Jr. see as the best prevention for riots?
(a) Creative works.
(b) Social justice.
(c) Strict laws.
(d) Higher education.

7. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?
(a) To enforce segregation laws.
(b) To provide Black citizens with land.
(c) To stop Black people from voting.
(d) To promote racial equality.

8. How did Joseph H. Jackson view Martin Luther King, Jr.'s activities during the civil rights movement?
(a) He considered King a "hero."
(b) He considered King a "pioneer."
(c) He considered King a "misguided soul."
(d) He considered King a "hoodlum."

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

10. Who coined the phrase, "Black Power"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Stokey Carmichael.
(c) Muhammed Ali.
(d) Martin Luther King, Sr.

11. What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
(a) It tipped the balance of power in favor of slave states.
(b) It provided a legal argument against emancipation.
(c) It overturned the Fugitive Slave Clause.
(d) It nullified the Missouri Compromise.

12. What was the term for the system that allowed Southern states to "hire out" prisoners to private companies?
(a) Chattel slavery.
(b) Indentured servitude.
(c) Convict-leasing.
(d) Prisoner-rental.

13. What punishment was imposed on free citizens who failed to assist the authorities in capturing a runaway slave?
(a) They were imprisoned.
(b) They were stripped of U.S. citizenship.
(c) They were fined $1,000.
(d) They were executed.

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

15. When did the construction of Confederate monuments become popular?
(a) 1920-1940.
(b) 1900-1920.
(c) 1940-1970.
(d) 1870-1900.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the term for the system of laws and customs used to control Black people after the Civil War?

2. Which professions were excluded from receiving Social Security?

3. Who gave the Cornerstone Speech?

4. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?

5. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?

(see the answer keys)

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