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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. Why did Presbyterians oppose the Gardener Springs Resolutions?
(a) They believed it was wrong for Black people to seek admittance into white congregations.
(b) They believed it was wrong for the church to pledge loyalty to any one political system.
(c) They believed it was wrong for Christians to support slave-owning or segregated policies.
(d) They believed it was wrong for preachers to develop their own sermons and speeches.

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

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

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

5. 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) Judaism.
(c) Taoism.
(d) Buddhism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?

2. What term was used the describe the mixing of different races?

3. What was the practice of blockbusting?

4. What was the term for the system that allowed Southern states to "hire out" prisoners to private companies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the outcome of Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka?

2. According to Tisby, how was Jesus depicted in mainstream art during the 1950s and 1960s?

3. Why did many Christian fundamentalists oppose political involvement?

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

5. When Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed following a protest in Birmingham, eight white clergymen wrote to him. What did they ask him to do?

6. In Chapter 8, Tisby argues that white moderates during the civil rights movement failed to understand something about racism. What does he believe they missed?

7. How did many white moderates in the 1960s believe that racism should be addressed?

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

9. What was Theodore Bilbo's opinion on racial intermixing?

10. According to Tisby, how did most white Christian moderates responds to the civil rights movement?

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