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Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, only a small percentage of ______ has escaped attack.
(a) Northern laws.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Underground railroad.
(d) Segregation code.

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

3. What is the word used to describe people who disliked or were afraid of the Negroes?
(a) Supremacists.
(b) Negrophiles.
(c) Collaborators.
(d) Negrophobes.

4. What term was used to describe former slaves?
(a) Runaways.
(b) Crow's people.
(c) Freedmen.
(d) Animals.

5. What was a common name often used to disparage whites?
(a) Honky.
(b) Whitebred.
(c) Cracker.
(d) Wasp.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word was often used to describe the status of a black person, whether or not he was free?

3. In the late 1800s blacks were accepted, or at least tolerated, where?

4. In what month did the Brown case come to an end?

5. What is the well-known name of the group that wanted to end slavery?

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