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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of a black barber who claimed to have shaved Chicago's first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln?

2. When did Providence Hospital and nursing school for black women open?

3. How old was Ferdinand Barnett when he opened his own law office?

4. When did Swift move to Chicago?

5. When did Gustavus Swift die?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

2. Who did John go to the beach with on July 27, 1919, and how did they get to the beach?

3. Where did John and his friends have a special place for their own by the water?

4. What type of work did Irishmen perform when the Chicago canal was built?

5. In the Prologue, what rage had been building in Chicago and how had it started?

6. Who was John Jones, and why did he come to Chicago in the 1840s?

7. Why did the lives of blacks get more difficult in the 1850s, and what was something that they did about it?

8. Why did John not go home immediately after Eugene's death?

9. Where there segregation laws in Chicago in 1919?

10. How many blacks were employed by the Union Stock Yard after the Civil War?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There were tensions among the different unions and the races they represented. Why were unions mostly unsuccessful in getting blacks to join? What role did the work of the unions play in racial tensions in the early 1900s?

Essay Topic 2

Many black men fought in the Great War. What did black men experience when they fought in the war? How did the experiences that they had affect their expectations of life when they returned home?

Essay Topic 3

Southern blacks were different in a number of ways from Northern blacks. What were some differences between Southern and Northern blacks? Why did whites not see the differences between Northern and Southern blacks? How did those perceptions add to stereotypes of all blacks?

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