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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 constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?
(a) Not owning a home.
(b) Not having gainful employment.
(c) Not taking care of one’s children.
(d) Not being clean.

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

3. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?
(a) Black Bottom.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) New York City.

4. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) 2019.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1925.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the area of Detroit to which Blacks moved during the Great Migration?

2. What percent of African Americans were in the Union army?

3. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?

4. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?

5. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the book’s genre? What does that mean?

2. In which part of Detroit did most Black people live after the Great Migration? Describe the conditions there.

3. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

4. How did the increased housing demand during the Great Migration affect rents?

5. What is Reconstruction?

6. When did The Civil War Begin? What started it?

7. Why were some Southern whites surprised the Great Migration took place?

8. Who was President after Lincoln’s assasination? In what ways did he attempt to return to slavery?

9. What was the Homestead Act and why did it not benefit African Americans?

10. What was the Chicago Defender and what role did it have, or was it suspected to have, in the Great Migration?

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