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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Ida B .Wells?
(a) An antilynching activist.
(b) An American politician.
(c) A college professor.
(d) A Black physician.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?

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

3. What was the nickname for the state of Kansas during the years leading up to the Civil War?

4. What was the term for the mass movement of Black people from the South?

5. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

Short Essay Questions

1. After World War II, the government introduced the GI bill to help returning soldiers. How did the treatment of Black and white veterans differ?

2. What was the effect of the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (EEOC)?

3. What was the "Grandfather Clause"?

4. According to Tisby, what were some of the "radical" messages Martin Luther King, Jr. supported?

5. In Chapter 5, Tisby argues that slavery was both a religious and civil issue. How was slavery a religious issue?

6. What was the purpose of the Freeman's Bureau?

7. In Chapter 6, Tisby discusses the "Lost Cause" narrative. How did this narrative view white Southerners living in pre-Civil War communities?

8. Some historians and contemporary pundits argue that the Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery. What is Tisby's perspective?

9. According to Tisby, what impact did the inaction of white moderate Christians have on the civil rights movement?

10. How did white churches respond to "white flight' (126)?

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