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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. When was a slave market established on Wall Street?

2. When was the land for Emancipation Park in Houston purchased?

3. What was Jefferson Davis's home state?

4. How old was the city of Houston when Jack Yates and his family moved there?

5. By 1860, what was the value of the nearly four million enslaved people valued at?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Heidi Christensen say about the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)?

2. What was the Lost Cause movement?

3. What is Emancipation Park in Houston?

4. According to historian Jill Lepore, what was the death toll for Africans brought to America?

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

6. What did Damaras Obi, a tour guide in New York City, say about how slavery was central to the U.S. economy?

7. Who did Smith take with him to the Sons of Confederate Veterans ( SCV) commemoration celebration?

8. What was the Blandford Church?

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

10. What did Smith write about the stories told about history at the end of the chapter about Blandford Cemetery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Historic integrity determines the ability of a site to convey its significance. Why is there controversy regarding the historical integrity of the Whitney Plantation?

Essay Topic 2

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not help the formerly enslaved to make the transformation to freedom?

Essay Topic 3

Clint Smith is the author of How the Word Is Passed. Why did Smith write the book?

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