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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 Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
2. What was Abraham Lincoln's most famous moniker?
3. When was the Voting Rights Act passed?
4. Which president urged Congress to implement a civil rights act in 1948?
5. Where was Angela Davis from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did President Woodrow Wilson fear about Black soldiers' experiences in Europe during WWI?
2. What was the first legislation that Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted passed following President John F. Kennedy's assassination?
3. How did the media treat Malcolm X's death, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
4. Which politician did Richard Nixon model his run for the presidency from, and why?
5. According to Reynolds and Kendi, what was a drawback of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
6. According to Reynolds and Kendi, how did Roosevelt's New Deal affect Black people?
7. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is the most effective piece of antiracist legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress?
8. What approach did Booker T. Washington take to trying to gain more equal treatment for Blacks?
9. What is one major change that Stokely Carmichael brought into the antiracist fight?
10. What happened when President Harry Truman urged Congress to pass a civil rights act in 1948?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do Reynolds and Kendi classify Gomes Eanes de Zurara as the world's first racist? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What did Cotton Mather believe was the sole mission of slavery, and how did the public at the time react to this view? Write an essay explaining your answers, 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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