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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. According to the Chapter "Defending Our Name," what city in 1893 exported more cotton than any other city in America?

2. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?

3. What, according to the first item of business of the Black leaders' agenda, did women have to defend?

4. What did the text claim was so "rampant" in the South that thousands of Black women were compelled to leave the South?

5. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commonalities did Black and White women's organizations have?

2. What were the differences between the Black and White women's organizations?

3. What did Robert Purvis say about the equality of sexes?

4. A month before Blacks set foot in Virginia, what laws did the House of Burgesses pass?

5. What contradictions did Black women face when it came to supporting Booker T. Washington?

6. What opinion did "The Woman's Era" (1894) offer regarding the traditional roles of women?

7. Although written to discuss the animal world, Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" was consequently paralleled to human society. How was this explained?

8. What did Ida B. Wells read in a paper after attending a meeting in Washington, D.C. to speak before Black women activists?

9. Why did the chapter "Defending Our Name" state that Ida B. Wells should have been pleased?

10. After emancipation, what did both Black men and women escape from? (Not in regard to slavery itself.)

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the Black women's clubs detailed in the book and describe:

1) its initial founding

2) the focus of the group

3) the progress the group made and

4) the opposition the group faced.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss in detail the problems that Black women faced in regard to the establishment of Black feminist groups. What problems did black women face in regard to opposition from white men and women and from black men?

Essay Topic 3

What impact did education have in the lives of Black women? Who were the key people involved in ensuring education for Black women was available? What did proper and higher education do for the advancement of Black women?

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