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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What word best describes how the liberals felt about that particular policy?
(a) Ignorant.
(b) Humiliating.
(c) Degrading.
(d) Humorous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the principle that ended in an unstable alliance?

2. Racial equality was said to be one of the main goals during which time?

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

4. What city was most likely the glaring exception in regards to segregation in this era?

5. What formal document is said to have officially abolished slavery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the basic structure of the plantation and the relationship between slave and owner.

2. What major step is included in the second phase of history in the south? What was it called?

3. The laws responsible for keeping blacks have developed a nickname. What was the name and where did it supposedly come from?

4. What were the names of some of the alternatives presented to the Southerners?

5. What threatened the main order of the way things were in the south? What court case was seen as a landmark case in regards to segregation?

6. Although the South is usually seen as being the worst of two evils when it comes to mixed cultures, the North practiced more residential segregation. Explain.

7. What kind of impact did the court case have on government agencies?

8. What important period does the third segment of the history follow? How does it relate to the others? How was this period characterized?

9. According to the text, what was included in the first segment of southern history as we know it? How many segments are there in total?

10. Although conservatives were often the enemy of the civil rights movement at the time, blacks often sought solace there. Explain.

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