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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Of Old Regimes and Reconstruction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the well-known name of the group that wanted to end slavery?
(a) Democrats.
(b) Separatists.
(c) Prohibitionists.
(d) Abolitionists.

2. What culture had and has a belief that it is superior to the black culture?
(a) European.
(b) Caucasian.
(c) Anglo-Saxon.
(d) Asian.

3. Northern blacks, unlike Southern blacks were considered to be free but were not permitted to have a particular status. What was it?
(a) Professional.
(b) Political.
(c) Legal.
(d) Government.

4. What was one of the things a freedman might do after leaving the plantation where he lived?
(a) Move to Canada.
(b) Travel west to Goldrush country.
(c) Purchase a small tract of land from former owner.
(d) Become a sharecropper.

5. What was another name for the outdated laws that pigeon-holed blacks?
(a) Plantation laws.
(b) Slavery Act of 1861.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Reprehensible.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Northern states allowed black men to vote at this time?

2. What caused the biggest conflict between the beliefs of that particular culture and the culture of the blacks?

3. What is the word or phrase that generally means the way things are?

4. In what year did this major historical event take place?

5. At the turn of the century, blacks were placed where on the rungs of society?

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