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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The conservative position grew out of what type of relationship?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Reconstructed.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Reformed.

2. Liberals fought hard against which of the following notions?
(a) Blacks are lazy.
(b) Whites are inherently superior.
(c) The South should remain separate.
(d) Desegretation will lead to interracial marriages.

3. What word is best used to describe the pre-war south?
(a) Metropolitan.
(b) Country.
(c) Urban.
(d) Rural.

4. What was one of the things a freedman might do after leaving the plantation where he lived?
(a) Travel west to Goldrush country.
(b) Move to Canada.
(c) Purchase a small tract of land from former owner.
(d) Become a sharecropper.

5. In what year was the book published?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1888.

6. What was responsible for assisting the schools and other organizations adapt to the new laws?
(a) Threatening actions.
(b) Protests.
(c) Actions of federal agencies.
(d) Walk outs.

7. What is the term used for a society in which the people of highest rank are the ones in charge?
(a) Gentrification.
(b) Savoir faire.
(c) Aristocracy.
(d) Noblesse Oblige.

8. Which is not one of the places listed as a location where southern blacks and whites might co-mingle?
(a) Schools.
(b) Grog Shops.
(c) Religious meetings.
(d) Mixed balls.

9. That particular type of philosophy was often referred to as a(n) ______ philosophy.
(a) Uninformed.
(b) Viable.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Purposeless.

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

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

12. By separating the whites from the blacks, it was believed that the blacks would remain _____.
(a) Uneducated.
(b) Humble.
(c) Captive.
(d) Subordinate.

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

14. In what year did this major historical event take place?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1873.

15. Which of the following is not on the list of phenomena that began to appear in the late 1800s?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Exploitation.
(c) Brutality.
(d) Cruelty.

Short Answer Questions

1. The level of tolerance regarding racial equality was directly related to which of the following?

2. What was not started in the south as it is commonly believed?

3. What was the name of the policy that stated that slave owners should remain in charge because they knew best?

4. What is a word used by the author that means the same as "to be cast out?"

5. What part of the south was known to have hundreds of thousands of free blacks?

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