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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did this event take place?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1920.

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

3. It is not yet known how ______ will eventually view these drastic changes in the system.
(a) Government.
(b) Blacks.
(c) History.
(d) Whites.

4. Many groups of blacks pushed to be able to have equal use of which of the following?
(a) Restaurant facilities.
(b) Freedom of speech.
(c) Water fountains.
(d) Public communications.

5. What is another name given to the Great Compromise?
(a) Rapture.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Reconnaisance.
(d) Reconstruction.

6. What is still the most prevalent issue between blacks and other ethnicities in the US?
(a) Labor Union.
(b) Civil rights.
(c) Civil War.
(d) Slavery.

7. Which of the following walked out following the new federal mandates?
(a) Federal troops.
(b) Local government officials.
(c) Vice President.
(d) State government officials.

8. Northern blacks, unlike Southern blacks were considered to be free but were not permitted to have a particular status. What was it?
(a) Government.
(b) Professional.
(c) Legal.
(d) Political.

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

10. What was named as being the next phase of the civil rights movement?
(a) Second Coming.
(b) Second Reconstruction.
(c) Segregation Release.
(d) Crow Movement.

11. What item was often provided to slaves, much to the surprise of the current white population?
(a) Property ownership..
(b) Medical care.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Education.

12. What public meeting place was one of the most affected by segregation after the slaves were freed?
(a) Churches.
(b) Bars.
(c) Railways.
(d) Supermarkets.

13. In regards to legal proceedings, what was a black barred from doing in the court room?
(a) Becoming a lawyer.
(b) Working as a court official.
(c) Testifying in any case.
(d) Being a juror.

14. Uncle ____ was a term often used to describe Negroes.
(a) George.
(b) Mason.
(c) Tom.
(d) Frank.

15. 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) Civil War.
(d) Reconstruction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What segment of the changes that took place in the South lasted the longest?

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

3. Which segment of the Southern population believed in a societal hierarchy regarding the blacks?

4. Blacks were allowed to be an integrated part of the crowds on "common carriers." Which of the following is not a common carrier mentioned in the book?

5. The phrase came from a book written by which author?

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