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

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

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

4. Why did Linda Browns parents originally want to send her to an all-white school?
(a) The all-white school didn't charge any fees.
(b) They wanted to directly oppose racism.
(c) The all-white school offered better facilities and teachers.
(d) They wanted to send her to a boarding school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Following the Civil War, what part of the U.S. had the largest number of Catholics?

2. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?

3. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?

4. Who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK?

5. What incident led to the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, some white parents chose to send their children to private schools. What motivated this decision?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. How did white Christians use the "curse of Ham" (82) passage to justify slavery?

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

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