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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Declining Years of Jim Crow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the well-known name of the group that wanted to end slavery?
(a) Separatists.
(b) Democrats.
(c) Prohibitionists.
(d) Abolitionists.

2. What was the name of the artistic resurgence that took place in the 1920s and 1930s?
(a) Harlem Renaissance.
(b) African-American Experience.
(c) Voices for Freedom.
(d) Southern Writers Group.

3. Which segment of the Southern population believed in a societal hierarchy regarding the blacks?
(a) Lower class.
(b) Upper class.
(c) Poverty stricken.
(d) Select class.

4. What major historical event took place in the 1870s?
(a) Gettysburg Address.
(b) Civil War.
(c) Great Compromise.
(d) Emancipation Proclamation.

5. In what year was the Civil Rights Act made into law?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which president was responsible for eliminating discrimination for federal employees?

2. The segregation of Southern schools remained an issue even after the Supreme Court decision handed down in what year?

3. What formal document is said to have officially abolished slavery?

4. The great historical event was thought to have caused the end of an important time period. What was it called?

5. What is commonly known as the speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr.?

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