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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 the area west of the Union Stock Yards and north of a park in 1919?

2. How were the black bathers chased away?

3. In 1870, how many blacks called Chicago home?

4. When did John Jones and Mary Richardson move to Chicago?

5. In 1919, what was the name of the Clubhouse that was south of the Back of the Yards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the job of a cattle butcher in Six: "Waste Matters"?

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

3. Who was Ferdinand Barnett?

4. What were homes like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

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

6. How did Gustavus Swift change the meat packing industry?

7. What were the only ways that Chicagoans could keep cool in the type of heat wave that was occurring in July of 1919?

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

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

10. What was Packingtown like in Seven: "Parallel Universes"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mob violence erupted the day of and week after Eugene Williams was killed. What type of violence was committed by mobs? How did anger fuel mob violence? How were mobs more dangerous than individuals on their own?

Essay Topic 2

The man who threw a rock at Eugene Williams was not arrested, even though he was still standing on the beach. How did police treat white and black offenders? How did the police discriminate against black offenders and victims?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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