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

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

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

4. 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) Bartering.
(b) Peonies.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Peonage.

5. When did race riots occur in the North?
(a) Between 1770-1771.
(b) Between 1940-1945.
(c) Between 1860-1863.
(d) Between 1917-1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Great Migration?

2. Which states’ determination to uphold American slavery led to the Civil War?

3. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?

4. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What was the Great Migration? Why did it happen?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Reconstruction?

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