The Color of Compromise Test | Final Test - Easy

Jemar Tisby
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Color of Compromise Test | Final Test - Easy

Jemar Tisby
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Martin Luther King, Jr. write "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1963.

2. Why did lynch mobs in Jim Crow regions often target Black preachers?
(a) Preachers had joined an organization designed to stop segregation
(b) Preachers had refused to get involved in political matters.
(c) Preachers had considerable influence in Black communities.
(d) Preachers had publicly confronted former slaver-owners.

3. What was the term for the mass movement of Black people from the South?
(a) The Great Migration.
(b) The Great Division.
(c) The Great Segregation.
(d) The Great Exodus.

4. What was the name of the group who fought for the rights of Black people in the Reconstruction Era?
(a) Dedicated Democrats.
(b) Radical Republicans.
(c) Freedom Riders.
(d) Modern Abolitionists.

5. What was the term for the system that allowed Southern states to "hire out" prisoners to private companies?
(a) Prisoner-rental.
(b) Chattel slavery.
(c) Indentured servitude.
(d) Convict-leasing.

6. During World War I, what role were most Black soldiers assigned?
(a) Riflemen and footsoldiers.
(b) Servants and menial laborers.
(c) Medics and doctors.
(d) Officers and lieutenants.

7. Which constitutional amendment freed all enslaved people in the United States?
(a) The 11th.
(b) The 12th.
(c) The 14th.
(d) The 13th.

8. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Georgia.

9. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Virginia .
(d) North Carolina.

10. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?
(a) To promote racial equality.
(b) To provide Black citizens with land.
(c) To stop Black people from voting.
(d) To enforce segregation laws.

11. In Chapter 7, Tisby speaks about that the "conspicuousness of white supremacy in the south" (129). According to him, what is one side-effect of this phenomenon?
(a) It is harder for citizens in the South to understand history.
(b) It is easier for residents in the North to confront racism.
(c) It is easier for racism in other parts of the country to go unnoticed.
(d) It is harder for racism to be penalized in the South.

12. What did Dr. George Edmund Hayes blame for the Red Summer violence?
(a) Insufficient support from local sheriffs.
(b) Political corruption by local officials.
(c) Unpunished lynchings committed by white citizens.
(d) Unruly behavior from Black citizens.

13. What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
(a) Private schools accepted Black students.
(b) Racial segregation was upheld by the courts.
(c) Racial segregation was struck down by the courts.
(d) Public schools accepted Black students.

14. What year were was the Gardener Springs Resolutions introduced?
(a) 1858.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1860.
(d) 1861.

15. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died in the Civil War?

2. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?

3. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?

4. What term was used the describe the mixing of different races?

5. Who was the first black U.S. senator?

(see the answer keys)

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