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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Declining Years of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the principle that ended in an unstable alliance?
(a) Fusion.
(b) Indeterminate.
(c) Integration.
(d) Calculable.

2. Segregation was referred to as being what kind of idea?
(a) Inherent.
(b) Innate.
(c) Ingrained.
(d) Inherited.

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

4. Who was one of the staunch liberals that permitted a drastic change in the Southern newspapers?
(a) Darning.
(b) Kimble.
(c) McGill.
(d) Irving.

5. The segregation of Southern schools remained an issue even after the Supreme Court decision handed down in what year?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ghost is predicted to haunt a troubled people although he is long dead?

2. Where was this particular speech delivered?

3. What is the word used for the action of engaging blacks into society as equals?

4. Racists often referred to Negroes as lacking which of the following?

5. Who is the author of "Prosperity of the South Dependent Upon the Elevation of the Negro?"

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