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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. The change in the Constitution and the new order is often referred to as:
(a) Rejuvenation.
(b) A mistake.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Blasphemy.

2. Liberals fought hard against which of the following notions?
(a) Whites are inherently superior.
(b) The South should remain separate.
(c) Blacks are lazy.
(d) Desegretation will lead to interracial marriages.

3. At the turn of the century, blacks were placed where on the rungs of society?
(a) Bottom.
(b) Bottom half.
(c) Middle.
(d) Top third.

4. What was named as being the next phase of the civil rights movement?
(a) Crow Movement.
(b) Second Coming.
(c) Second Reconstruction.
(d) Segregation Release.

5. What part of the south was known to have hundreds of thousands of free blacks?
(a) Crow South.
(b) Post-war.
(c) Antebellum.
(d) Pre World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the biggest conflict between the beliefs of that particular culture and the culture of the blacks?

2. In what year did this event take place?

3. What is the word used to describe people who disliked or were afraid of the Negroes?

4. In regards to legal proceedings, what was a black barred from doing in the court room?

5. What is the word or phrase that generally means the way things are?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name at least one major change that took place during the Redemption.

2. What threatened the main order of the way things were in the south? What court case was seen as a landmark case in regards to segregation?

3. What major step is included in the second phase of history in the south? What was it called?

4. The author gives examples of the types of places in which segregation was prevalent. Name some of those social and political arenas.

5. How did the coastal northern states tend to differ in opinion from the northeastern states that were located further inland? Explain.

6. What event(s) caused the federal government to take less interest in civil rights activities?

7. What kind of impact did the court case have on government agencies?

8. What phenomena emerged that may have caused the end of the alliance between blacks and conservative whites?

9. While some locales seemed to have some improvement regarding segregation, there were other places where other phenomena were appearing. Explain.

10. Overall, how can the all of the segments be bound to one specific group or cause? What was the outcome as far as how it has progressed?

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