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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. Blacks were allowed to be an integrated part of the crowds on "common carriers." Which of the following is not a common carrier mentioned in the book?
(a) Steamboat.
(b) Train.
(c) Plane.
(d) Streecars.

2. What formal document is said to have officially abolished slavery?
(a) Gettysburg Address.
(b) Watergate.
(c) Treaty of Lee and Grant.
(d) Emancipation Proclamation.

3. What was in steady decline between 1820 and 1860?
(a) City life.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Underground railroad.
(d) Religious freedom.

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

5. At the turn of the century, blacks were placed where on the rungs of society?
(a) Bottom half.
(b) Middle.
(c) Top third.
(d) Bottom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item was often provided to slaves, much to the surprise of the current white population?

2. Many groups of blacks pushed to be able to have equal use of which of the following?

3. Which of the following groups were not required to follow the new segregation laws?

4. The next phase was not governed by federal law. It was governed by which of the following?

5. What term was used to describe former slaves?

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