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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. Who, according to the chapter "To be a Woman Sublime," was the wealthiest and best educated Black woman of the time?

2. What, by order of the House of Burgesses, were masters of slaves able to do to their servants?

3. In 1913, what group organized a march in Washington, D.C. for the day before Woodrow Wilson's inauguration?

4. What was the name of the grocery that had been a target of White resentment?

5. What did Lottie Wilson Jackson not want Black women to be compelled to ride in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What headlines ran on Christmas Day in 1884 in the "Daily Appeal"?

4. What incident moved W.E.B. Du Bois to praise Black women for their courage?

5. What happened as a result of Ida B. Wellss' British tour?

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

7. How did Mary Ann Shadd Cary prove that she, as a Black woman, should have the right to vote?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What issues caused controversy among supporters and opponents of the The Fifteenth Amendment? Why were those issues relevant?

Essay Topic 2

Wartime for Black women was a very difficult period. Discuss the added problems that Black women faced during wartime. How did war change how Black women were seen by society? What changes did Black women make in response to the wars? What affect did war have on the Black woman and her family?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the treatment of Black female slaves from setting foot on American soil until slavery was abolished?

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