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

2. 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.

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

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

5. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?
(a) Colonial Dames of America.
(b) Daughters of the American Revolution.
(c) Preservation of the Virginia Antiquities.
(d) United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What argument was outlined in GT Gillespie's "Christian View of Segregation"?

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

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

5. What rights were granted by the 15th Amendment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the Freedom Riders?

2. Following the Scopes Trial of 1925, what did many white Christians fear?

3. What were "sundown towns"?

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

5. 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?

6. What prompted William J. Seymour's religious activities?

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

8. What was one domestic outcome of Black involvement in the armed forces during World War I?

9. According to Tisby, why did many white Christian moderates support a "law and order" (142) approach over the civil rights movement?

10. What was the "Grandfather Clause"?

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