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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The segregation issue also caused another issue, this time regarding a student's _____.
2. Whose ghost is predicted to haunt a troubled people although he is long dead?
3. What is commonly known as the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
4. Another powerful force mentioned by the author was a movement involving black churches. What term is used to describe the movement?
5. Which states were the first to wane in their support of the cause?
Short Essay Questions
1. What event followed the murder of the four young girls in a black church?
2. How did racial tensions increase at the end of World War I?
3. What group of states announced that it would integrate their schools? What was the opinion of the school systems in the Deep South regarding the time line?
4. Describe the three day siege in New Orleans and why it was an extreme example of white aggression.
5. To what level did Southern segregation rise to by 1915?
6. What was believed to be the cause of the Second Reconstruction?
7. What event precipitated the end of public school segregation? In what year did the event take place?
8. What is considered to be the key year in the Civil Rights Movement? What non-violent protest action came into popularity?
9. Describe the riots that took place during 1919. How many cities experienced the racial violence?
10. What event precipitated the New Reconstruction? How was compliance enforced?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Some of the most racially aggressive groups in the United States from the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement into the present include the Ku Klux Klan, Regulators, Skinheads, and Whitecappers. Describe each group, it intents and purposes as well as its violent and non-violent activities.
Essay Topic 2
Many changes occurred in politics and public perception of racial equality during and after the Great Depression. Discuss the changes. How did Roosevelt support racial equality? How did the New Deal incorporate all races into the plan? Discuss what changes took place in local politics at the time. Also explain the concept of the "common enemy" present at the time.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss police involvement in the Old South. How did the police react to racial violence? Were the police true to the law or were their actions biased? If the actions were biased, in what way were they biased and by whom? How could the blacks know if the police were on their side? What might have been done to ensure that the police were on hand to protect and serve?
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