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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. How much did Mary McLeod Bethune have as her initial investment to start a school?
2. What magazine, in January 1924, announced that it would "show in pictures as well as writing, Negro women who are unique, accomplished, beautiful, intelligent, industrious, talented, and successful"?
3. In what year was the Anti-Lynching Crusaders organized?
4. How much did the cost of living rise from 1914 to 1918?
5. How many Black branches did the YWCA have in the South in 1906?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration of the Department of Labor make life harder for Blacks during the Depression?
2. In 1919, what unusual step did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge take?
3. What was the Negro Congress and the Southern Negro Youth Congress able to settle in regard to the strike between Black women and the I.N. Vaughn Company?
4. What did the suffrage campaign represent for Black women?
5. What change did the Susan B. Anthony Amendment face in regard to the Jones Amendment?
6. Describe the KKK between 1915 and 1919.
7. What did the radical atmosphere of the 1920's make possible for Blacks to initiate in the political arena?
8. In the South, what did racial antipathy do?
9. What desire did Mary McLeod Bethune have after leaving Presbyterian Mission School?
10. What did Mary McLeod Bethune do at the age of 52 in 1927?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wartime for Black women was a very difficult period. Discuss the added problems that Black women faced during wartime. How did war change how Black women were seen by society? What changes did Black women make in response to the wars? What affect did war have on the Black woman and her family?
Essay Topic 2
How did mainstream society depict Black women in media? What issues did Black women have with these depictions? What did Black women do to change these media representations?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the treatment of Black female slaves from setting foot on American soil until slavery was abolished?
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