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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. The great historical event was thought to have caused the end of an important time period. What was it called?
(a) Great Compromise.
(b) Civil Rights movement.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Civil War.

2. Racial equality was said to be one of the main goals during which time?
(a) Reformation.
(b) Antebellum.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Reconstruction.

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

4. What word was often used to describe the status of a black person, whether or not he was free?
(a) Worthy.
(b) Regal.
(c) Inferior.
(d) Worthless.

5. The actions that took place in the South during this period are often thought of as being a/an:
(a) Aberration.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Resistance.
(d) Mutiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was responsible for assisting the schools and other organizations adapt to the new laws?

2. Which is not one of the places listed as a location where southern blacks and whites might co-mingle?

3. What aspect of Southern history involves plantations and slaves?

4. Northern blacks, unlike Southern blacks were considered to be free but were not permitted to have a particular status. What was it?

5. What was one of the things a freedman might do after leaving the plantation where he lived?

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