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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. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Obama.

2. Where did the 2014 police murder take place?
(a) New York City.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Ferguson, Missouri.
(d) Washington D.C.

3. What is the period of American History following the Civil War?
(a) World War I.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Redistribution.
(d) Reallocation.

4. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1925.

5. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?
(a) James Garfield.
(b) James Jameson.
(c) James Jefferson.
(d) James Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did Amadou Diallo emigrate?

2. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?

3. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?

4. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?

5. When did race riots occur in the North?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was President when the 13th Amendment was enacted? What were his views on Black Americans at that time?

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

3. How does Anderson define "white rage”?

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

5. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

6. What were the Black Codes?

7. 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?

8. Describe the peonage system.

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

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

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