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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 was not started in the south as it is commonly believed?
(a) Desegregation.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Plantations.
(d) Civil rights.

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

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

4. 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) Legal.
(c) Professional.
(d) Political.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the book published?

2. Which of the following may not be to blame for the continuance of the attitudes of the people regarding slavery?

3. What word was often used to describe the status of a black person, whether or not he was free?

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

5. What caused the biggest conflict between the beliefs of that particular culture and the culture of the blacks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. The author gives examples of the types of places in which segregation was prevalent. Name some of those social and political arenas.

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

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

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

7. Describe some of the choices Southerner were required to make regarding the status of races.

8. Although more states entered the union, there were no new laws regarding blacks. Discuss this fact and the eligibility of voting status for black men.

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

10. Describe what it was like in regards to racial separation in the Antebellum South, particularly in the cities.

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