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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. During a parade for the Martyrs of the Race Course, how many black schoolchildren led the procession?
(a) 3,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 7,000.

2. When Lincoln ran for the presidency in 1860, in how many states did slavery exist?
(a) 11.
(b) 19.
(c) 24.
(d) 15.

3. When were the people of Seneca Village removed by force?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1852.

4. How many stained glass windows did Louis Comfort Tiffany create for Blandford Church?
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

5. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?
(a) 12 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 20 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?

2. How many African men were brought to New Amsterdam as slaves in 1626?

3. How many Union soldiers died at the prison established at Charleston's Washington Race Course and Jackey Club?

4. What was Jefferson Davis's home state?

5. According to Joseph T. Glatthaar, historian, in 1861, how many Confederate soldiers either owned slaves or lived with a head of household who did?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Al Edwards Sr. work to make Juneteenth a Texas state holiday?

2. What was the Blandford Church?

3. What considerations did Smith feel needed to be made when studying history or celebrating significant moments of the past?

4. In 1881, what did Jefferson Davis write about the cause of the Civil War?

5. What was the Lost Cause movement?

6. What did Kevin M. Levin write about the Battle of the Crater and how Black soldiers were treated?

7. What happened to a woman named Tempie Cummins and her mother after freedom was declared?

8. What did Robert E. Lee write in a letter in 1869 about monuments?

9. What did Martha at Blandford Cemetery think Robert E. Lee would have felt about all the statues in his honor?

10. What education project was the UDC involved in?

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