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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Black Codes?
(a) Dress codes at all black schools.
(b) A series of laws targeting and only applicable to Black Americans.
(c) A secret language developed by the Black community.
(d) Laws restricting Blacks from holding public office.

2. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?
(a) Helping the newly freed find jobs.
(b) Reallocating abandoned southern land to newly freed people.
(c) Moving newly freedmen North.
(d) Giving furniture to the recently emancipated.

3. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?
(a) Peonage.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Bartering.
(d) Peonies.

4. What is the name of the area of Detroit to which Blacks moved during the Great Migration?
(a) Black mountain.
(b) Black Village.
(c) Black Valley.
(d) Black Bottom.

5. What year was the KKK founded?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1965.

6. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?
(a) The Ossian Sweet Decision.
(b) The Frederick Douglass Decision.
(c) The Dred Scott Decision.
(d) The Simon Johnson Decision.

7. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?
(a) Police Officer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Teacher.

8. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?
(a) The Chicago Defender.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) The Mississippi Chronicle.
(d) The New York Times.

9. What is the Great Migration?
(a) Exodus of Blacks to the North.
(b) Exodus of Blacks to the South.
(c) Exodus of Whites to Africa.
(d) Exodus of Blacks to Africa.

10. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?
(a) Better schools.
(b) Better restaurants.
(c) Better lawyers.
(d) Better hospitals.

11. What three things did the Radical Republicans seek for Blacks?
(a) Land, citizenship, and the right to vote.
(b) Land, citizenship, and automobiles.
(c) Land, clothing, and the right to vote.
(d) Land, employment, and the right to vote.

12. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?
(a) Oath of office.
(b) Iron Clad Test Oath.
(c) Hippocratic Oath.
(d) Oath of Allegiance.

13. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?
(a) The murder of George Floyd.
(b) Trump’s presidential victory.
(c) The 13th Amendment.
(d) The murder or Amadou Diallo.

14. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Incitement.
(b) Awakening.
(c) Kindling.
(d) Firewood.

15. Which states’ determination to uphold American slavery led to the Civil War?
(a) Southern.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Western.
(d) Northern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?

2. Who is the author of the book White Rage?

3. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?

4. What year were the Black Codes passed?

5. In 1918, The Federal Government issued what order for Blacks?

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