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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. Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

2. What did a New York Times editorial say about Malcolm X. in the wake of his death?

3. When is Black History Month in the U.S.?

4. Which set of racist laws became enacted in the U.S. following the Civil War?

5. Which university were the four Black freshman from who started the original lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Angela Davis feel about the teachings of Malcolm X?

2. According to Reynolds and Kendi, how did Roosevelt's New Deal affect Black people?

3. According to Reynolds and Kendi, what was a drawback of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

4. What is one major change that Stokely Carmichael brought into the antiracist fight?

5. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that Black people were doing even as Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator?

6. Who was the most famous Black man in America in the early 1900s, and what did he symbolize to Black people?

7. How did the media treat Malcolm X's death, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

8. Which politician did Richard Nixon model his run for the presidency from, and why?

9. What were some of President Andrew Johnson's influences on race relations in America?

10. What was the first legislation that Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted passed following President John F. Kennedy's assassination?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the different approaches W.E.B Du Bois and Booker T. Washington took to writing and advocating for greater equality of Blacks? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

For Puritans like John Cotton and Richard Mather, what were the connections between their religion and their racist views? Write an essay explaining an answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise, and what were the founders' reasons for including it in the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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