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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. Who was arrested after the confrontation at Dr. Sweet’s house?
(a) Dr. Sweet, his wife and friends.
(b) Dr. Sweet’s child.
(c) Those who threw things at his home.
(d) Police officers who didn’t help.

2. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 19th.
(c) The 12th.
(d) The 16th.

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

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

5. In 1918, The Federal Government issued what order for Blacks?
(a) Work or fight.
(b) Get married or fight.
(c) Teach or fight.
(d) Move or fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the Prologue?

2. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?

3. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?

4. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?

5. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the “Red Summer”? When and where did it take place?

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

3. Why were Southern states determined to hold onto slavery? How did they benefit from slavery?

4. Who is the author of White Rage? What is her background? What led her to write this book?

5. Who was Ossian Sweet? What happened on September 9, 1925? Where did Ossian Sweet live his final years?

6. What were some of the ways Southern states attempted to punish Blacks for trying to move North around WWI?

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

8. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

9. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? When and why was it created?

10. During the time of The Great Migration, a newspaper was the major source of information that could impact what one believed. What would you say is a major source of information today? Is this a reliable source? What are some better ways to find reliable news?

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