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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Aberration.
(d) Revolution.

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

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

5. In which of the coastal states did blacks continue to hold political or public office?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Maryland.

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

7. The Northerners often ignored what part of their cities?
(a) Ghettos.
(b) Suburbs.
(c) Town centers.
(d) Slums.

8. In the late 1800s blacks were accepted, or at least tolerated, where?
(a) Buses.
(b) Politics.
(c) Restaurants.
(d) Schools.

9. Many liberals referred to the Northerners as which of the following?
(a) Hypocrites.
(b) Populists.
(c) Neanderthals.
(d) Slave owners.

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

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

12. What major historical event took place in the 1870s?
(a) Gettysburg Address.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Great Compromise.
(d) Emancipation Proclamation.

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

14. Who is the author of "The Silent South?"
(a) Lewis.
(b) Cable.
(c) Blair.
(d) Fitzgerald.

15. In what month did the Brown case come to an end?
(a) October.
(b) April.
(c) May.
(d) August.

Short Answer Questions

1. The great historical event was thought to have caused the end of an important time period. What was it called?

2. In what year did this event take place?

3. Many groups of blacks pushed to be able to have equal use of which of the following?

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

5. In regards to legal proceedings, what was a black barred from doing in the court room?

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