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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Defending Our Name.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city did Black washerwomen announce that they were going to charge a standard rate for their work? (1866)
(a) Nashville.
(b) Montgomery.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Jackson.

2. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) Black men and white women.
(b) Black men and women.
(c) Black men.
(d) White women.

3. How many Black female lawyers were there coming into the 1880's?
(a) 17.
(b) 54.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. Who was known as the "Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy"?
(a) Frances Willard.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Lady Somerset.

5. What caused the death of both of Ida B. Wells' parents?
(a) Small pox.
(b) Polio.
(c) Yellow fever.
(d) Diphtheria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the woman that taught former slaves in the 1860's in the South Carolina Sea Islands?

2. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

3. Who, at an 1869 convention, spoke in support of the Fifteenth Amendment?

4. Where was Mary Church Terrell living when she heard the news of the grocer's lynching?

5. In what year was Darwin's "Origin of Species" published?

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