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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. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?
(a) April 17, 1855.
(b) July 4, 1862.
(c) March 6, 1857.
(d) December 24, 1860.

2. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois's half brother who was born out of wedlock?
(a) Adelbert.
(b) Henry.
(c) Paul.
(d) Thomas.

3. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1859.

4. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) January 7, 1890.
(c) February 23, 1868.
(d) June 25, 1890.

5. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1906.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Lynch Law?

2. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?

3. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?

4. What does MFDP stand for?

5. Where was George Wallace governor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?

3. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?

4. Who is Angela Davis? What led Davis to activism?

5. What is eugenics and how does it apply to racism?

6. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

7. What led William Lloyd Garrison to say of Abraham Lincoln that he did not have "a drop of antislavery blood in his veins" (217)?

8. What impacts did the women's suffrage movement have on the Black community?

9. Why is the issue of land distribution following the Civil War significant?

10. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

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