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

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

3. What was the name of the man that began his career during this time?
(a) Crow.
(b) Grant.
(c) Lee.
(d) Jackson.

4. What segment of the changes that took place in the South lasted the longest?
(a) 2nd.
(b) 3rd.
(c) 1st.
(d) 4th.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following walked out following the new federal mandates?

2. What is the word or phrase that generally means the way things are?

3. What was another name for the outdated laws that pigeon-holed blacks?

4. It is not yet known how ______ will eventually view these drastic changes in the system.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss why city life in the Antebellum South was not really amenable to slavery and segregation. How was city life affected?

2. How did the coastal northern states tend to differ in opinion from the northeastern states that were located further inland? Explain.

3. While some locales seemed to have some improvement regarding segregation, there were other places where other phenomena were appearing. Explain.

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

5. What does the author say about exploitation from 1877-1900?

6. Overall, how can the all of the segments be bound to one specific group or cause? What was the outcome as far as how it has progressed?

7. What event(s) caused the federal government to take less interest in civil rights activities?

8. It has been shown that full-fledged segregation occurred in the North, and was transported to the South after the Civil War. Discuss this fact.

9. What phenomena emerged that may have caused the end of the alliance between blacks and conservative whites?

10. In 1877, a major historical event occurred. What was the event and what did it mean in relation to the Reconstruction?

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