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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. Which of the following was not part of the fourth segment?
(a) Demise of Jim Crow.
(b) Birth of Martin Luther King.
(c) New federal support.
(d) Action by civil rights leaders.

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

3. What was the term used to define government officials put in charge of the new laws regarding former slaves?
(a) Reformed.
(b) Relinquished.
(c) Resurrected.
(d) Redeemed.

4. What was another term for the walled compounds where blacks worked as slaves?
(a) Fields.
(b) Plantations.
(c) Groves.
(d) Restricted areas.

5. What is the word or phrase that generally means the way things are?
(a) Stationary.
(b) Regulated.
(c) Status quo.
(d) Ipso facto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it called when a prevalent body or thought rules the land?

2. What was the name of the man that began his career during this time?

3. It is not yet known how ______ will eventually view these drastic changes in the system.

4. What word is best used to describe the pre-war south?

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

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