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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the group who fought for the rights of Black people in the Reconstruction Era?
(a) Radical Republicans.
(b) Dedicated Democrats.
(c) Freedom Riders.
(d) Modern Abolitionists.

2. According to Tisby, what text did white Christians primarily use to justify slavery?
(a) The Bill of Rights.
(b) The Book of Mormon.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The US Constitution.

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

4. 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.

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

6. What was a side effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?
(a) Abolitionist groups received additional funding.
(b) Slave-oweners lost some of their authority over enslaved people.
(c) Black people could be captured and enslaved, even in free states.
(d) Black people were prohibited from entering free states.

7. What was the impact of the Dred Scott Decision?
(a) Slavery was overturned within certain Southern states.
(b) Slavery was outlawed within the northestern states.
(c) Enslaved people could not use the legal system to petition for their freedom.
(d) Enslaved people could enroll in public schools that served white citizens.

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

9. What was the name of the president of the National Baptist Convention, often known as the "Negro Pope"?
(a) L. Venchael Booth
(b) Benjamin Mays
(c) Gardner Calvin Taylor
(d) Rev. Joseph H. Jackson

10. According to Tisby, what belief structure was behind the Lost Cause narrative?
(a) Racial equality.
(b) White supremecy.
(c) Abolitionism
(d) Fundementalism.

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

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

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

14. According to Tisby, what political system was believed to be associated with the civil rights movement?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Authoritarianism.
(d) Communism.

15. What was the most common cause of death in the Civil War?
(a) Malnutrition.
(b) Dehydration.
(c) Disease.
(d) Blood loss.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?

3. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?

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

5. What motivated George Pepperdine to found his university?

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