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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
(a) Public schools accepted Black students.
(b) Private schools accepted Black students.
(c) Racial segregation was struck down by the courts.
(d) Racial segregation was upheld by the courts.

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

3. 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.

4. What was the term for the mass movement of Black people from the South?
(a) The Great Segregation.
(b) The Great Migration.
(c) The Great Division.
(d) The Great Exodus.

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

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

7. Why did lynch mobs in Jim Crow regions often target Black preachers?
(a) Preachers had publicly confronted former slaver-owners.
(b) Preachers had refused to get involved in political matters.
(c) Preachers had considerable influence in Black communities.
(d) Preachers had joined an organization designed to stop segregation

8. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?
(a) D.W. Griffith.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Ulysses S. Grant.
(d) Thomas Dixon Jr.

9. According to James Henley Thornwell, "The church can merely assert what the bible teaches, and must remain silent on that which the bible is silent" (85). What is the name of this doctrine?
(a) The of impartiality the church.
(b) The infallibility of the church.
(c) The serendipity of the church.
(d) The spirituality of the church.

10. What was the term for the system of laws and customs used to control Black people after the Civil War?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Freedom acts.
(c) Chattel laws.
(d) Slave codes.

11. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Ulysses S. Grant.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) James Buchanan.

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

13. Following the Civil War, what part of the U.S. had the largest number of Catholics?
(a) The South.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) The East Coast.
(d) The West Coast.

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

15. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?
(a) Their opponents referenced a different version of the Bible.
(b) The Bible did not address the morality of slave-ownership.
(c) Several Bible passages directly supported slave-ownership.
(d) Many abolitionists were illiterate and unable to read the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did white publications like Christianity Today respond to the civil rights movement?

2. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?

3. Who was the first Black Catholic priest in the United States?

4. What was the term for the bloody racial conflict that gripped the South during 1919?

5. According to Tisby, what belief structure was behind the Lost Cause narrative?

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