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Possible Questions You Will Find in History Changes Quiz - Check Your Knowledge Plus What
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These questions are used as quizzes, but they are also ways to teach yourself what you need to know to read for and to write any of the possible essays for Question 1 for Unit 1 Essay Exam. Make sure you notice the ones you miss—they may indicate an assumption that you need to remove from your mind.
Knowing what happened first tells us reality. It is not
memorizing some dates, but noticing how things happen and what human action
does in changing events.
There are many examples, but this one is the easiest to understand. The world
works differently if at the time when African American slaves became freedmen:
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Little
changed from what had occurred during slavery.
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Some
African Americans did such things as vote in elections to determine delegates
to write new constitution for states:
After you take the History Changes Quiz, you will see:
1. A quiz so you can check your knowledge
2. A link with a table to help you compare the time periods side-by-side and with the specific pages you must read for each of the periods you will write about
3. A file of definitions (such as accommodations, caste, civil rights, discrimination, lynch, segregation) that may help you
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FOUR QUICK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
PAST - When the English colonists in Virginia bought the first Africans about
1619, the status of these Africans was: a. Status as servants with
“shorter than lifetime bondage” b. Status as slaves with
“lifetime bondage” c. Some of both |
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FOUR QUICK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
PAST – About forty years later in
the 1660s, the colonial legislatures in Virginia and Maryland wrote laws
determining the “normal status of blacks but never whites” was: a. free b. slave |
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FOUR QUICK
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PAST – Those new laws in the 1660s also determined the status of a child born of a
woman who was a slave. If the father was free, the child was: a. free b. slave |
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FOUR QUICK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
PAST - By 1660, the number of Africans (whether African servants or slaves)
working in the tobacco fields amount to what percentage of the European (the
white) population? a. 4% b. 20%. c. 40% d. 80% |
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Select the word below that
best fits this definition: “prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or
treatment”: a. caste b. civil rights c. discrimination d. lynch e. segregation |
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Select the word below that best
fits this definition to one aspect of civil rights. It is the right—as long
as you can pay the fee— to use “something supplied for convenience or to
satisfy a need: as lodging, food, and services or traveling space and related
services”? a. accommodation b. civil rights c. discrimination d. lynch e. segregation |
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Select the word below that
best fits this definition: “the separation or isolation of a race, class, or
ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers
to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other
discriminatory means” a. caste b. civil rights c. discrimination d. lynch e. segregation |
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Select the word below that is
referred by these “related words”: “confinement,
incarceration,
internment,
quarantine;
retirement,
withdrawal;
ghettoization”
a. accommodation b. civil rights c. discrimination d. lynch e. segregation |
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Select the item below that can
be viewed as a cause of the Reconstruction Act which placed 10 states in the
South under military control, with Union troops, including black soldiers
(Military Reconstruction) a. Civil Rights Cases - a Supreme Court decision b. Compromise in which the Democratic
Party accepted the Republican Party’s questionable victory in the electoral
college and the Republican Party agreed that Union troops would no longer act
to defend blacks or the law c. Lynching in the South--a
“constant possibility of violence” d. Northern public’s “fury”
over the actions of the South at the end of the Civil War and the North’s
subsequent election of more Radical Republicans to Congress e. Northern states having
their own anti-black laws, such as limitations on voting by blacks, and the
Northern public’s eventual “tacit approval” of the South’s actions f. Plessy v. Ferguson - a Supreme Court decision |
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Select the item below that can
be viewed as the reason that blacks in the South had no practical way to sue if
they were denied access to public accommodations in a Southern state unless a
governmental organization denied the access. a. Civil Rights Cases - a Supreme Court decision b. Compromise in which the
Democratic Party accepted the Republican Party’s questionable victory in the
electoral college and the Republican Party agreed that Union troops would no
longer act to defend blacks or the law c. Lynching in the South--a
“constant possibility of violence” d. Northern public’s “fury”
over the actions of the South at the end of the Civil War and the North’s
subsequent election of more Radical Republicans to Congress e. Northern states having
their own anti-black laws, such as limitations on voting by blacks, and the
Northern public’s eventual “tacit approval” of the South’s actions f. Plessy v. Ferguson - a Supreme Court decision |
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Select the item below that can
be viewed as a cause of the Union troops no longer being in the South
(Military Reconstruction) a. Civil Rights Cases - a Supreme Court decision b. Compromise in which the
Democratic Party accepted the Republican Party’s questionable victory in the
electoral college and the Republican Party agreed that Union troops would no
longer act to defend blacks or the law c. Lynching in the South--a
“constant possibility of violence” d. Northern public’s “fury”
over the actions of the South at the end of the Civil War and the North’s
subsequent election of more Radical Republicans to Congress e. Northern states having
their own anti-black laws, such as limitations on voting by blacks, and the
Northern public’s eventual “tacit approval” of the South’s actions f. Plessy v. Ferguson - a Supreme Court decision |
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Select the item below that can
be viewed as a cause of blacks accepting the treatment in this era”? a. Civil Rights Cases - a Supreme Court decision b. Compromise in which the
Democratic Party accepted the Republican Party’s questionable victory in the
electoral college and the Republican Party agreed that Union troops would no
longer act to defend blacks or the law c. Lynching in the South--a
“constant possibility of violence” d. Northern public’s “fury”
over the actions of the South at the end of the Civil War and the North’s subsequent
election of more Radical Republicans to Congress e. Northern states having
their own anti-black laws, such as limitations on voting by blacks, and the
Northern public’s eventual “tacit approval” of the South’s actions f. Plessy v. Ferguson - a Supreme Court decision |
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Select the item below that can
be viewed as a reason that the South’s strategies after 1877 succeeded when
its strategies failed from 1867 to 1877 a. Civil Rights Cases - a Supreme Court decision b. Compromise in which the
Democratic Party accepted the Republican Party’s questionable victory in the
electoral college and the Republican Party agreed that Union troops would no
longer act to defend blacks or the law c. Lynching in the South--a
“constant possibility of violence” d. Northern public’s “fury”
over the actions of the South at the end of the Civil War and the North’s
subsequent election of more Radical Republicans to Congress e. Northern states having
their own anti-black laws, such as limitations on voting by blacks, and the
Northern public’s eventual “tacit approval” of the South’s actions f. Plessy v. Ferguson - a Supreme Court decision |
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In what time period can best be
described as segregation as an “ever-tightening grip”? The Supreme Court
upheld that segregation was constitutional. Black soldiers on the way to
fight for the United States in the Spanish American War were attacked in the
South. Lynching continued. a. In the first two years
after the Civil War (1865-1867) b. In the first five years
after Military Reconstruction started (1867-1872) c. In the second five years of
Military Reconstruction(1872-1877) d. In the ten years after the
agreement to remove Union troops from the South (1877-1887) e. In the six years of a shift
in the South to such things as new state laws (1887-1893) f. In the eight years of
acceptance of the South’s actions by an “unreceptive” court system and the
North itself (1893-1901) |
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In what time period can best be
described as segregation “evolved slowly”? Blacks’ access to public
facilities like railroad cars was “roughly equal to whites.” In some areas of
the South, blacks continued to vote, serve on juries, and hold office. On the
other hand there were “new laws” passed by the states to limit access to
public facilities. a. In the first two years
after the Civil War (1865-1867) b. In the first five years
after Military Reconstruction started (1867-1872) c. In the second five years of
Military Reconstruction(1872-1877) d. In the ten years after the
agreement to remove Union troops from the South (1877-1887) e. In the six years of a shift
in the South to such things as new state laws (1887-1893) f. In the eight years of
acceptance of the South’s actions by an “unreceptive” court system and the
North itself (1893-1901) |
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In what time period can best
be described as segregation “spread”? Southern states had passed laws to
segregate railroad cars and the state judiciary upheld that law when
challenged by a black man, Homer Plessy, and he appealed the case to the
national Supreme Court. Southern states passed new laws to stop black voters
(literacy tests and poll taxes). Lynching, or murder by a mob, becomes a way
to intimidate blacks. a. In the first two years
after the Civil War (1865-1867) b. In the first five years
after Military Reconstruction started (1867-1872) c. In the second five years of
Military Reconstruction(1872-1877) d. In the ten years after the agreement
to remove Union troops from the South (1877-1887) e. In the six years of a shift
in the South to such things as new state laws (1887-1893) f. In the eight years of
acceptance of the South’s actions by an “unreceptive” court system and by the
North itself (1893-1901) |
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In what time period can best
be described as a time when blacks did such things in the South as organize
voters, vote to elect delegates to state conventions, held office, and
legally worshipped in their own churches? They faced race riots as well as
one of the periods when the Ku Klux Klan was active. a. In the first two years
after the Civil War (1865-1867) b. In the first five years
after Military Reconstruction started (1867-1872) c. In the second five years of
Military Reconstruction(1872-1877) d. In the ten years after the
agreement to remove Union troops from the South (1877-1887) e. In the six years of a shift
in the South to such things as new state laws (1887-1893) f. In the eight years of
acceptance of the South’s actions by an “unreceptive” court system and the
North itself (1893-1901) |
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In what time period can best
be described as a time when blacks voted but faced increasing attempts of Southerners
to stop them from voting by attacking voters and office holder?. One of the
elections in this period is referred to as “one of the last honest elections
the region [the South] would see for many years.” Blacks faced the Ku Klux
Klan again as it attacked voters and office holders, but the Republican
Congress passed the KKK Act and used federal marshals to stop the KKK. a. In the first two years
after the Civil War (1865-1867) b. In the first five years
after Military Reconstruction started (1867-1872) c. In the second five years of
Military Reconstruction(1872-1877) d. In the ten years after the
agreement to remove Union troops from the South (1877-1887) e. In the six years of a shift
in the South to such things as new state laws (1887-1893) f. In the eight years of
acceptance of the South’s actions by an “unreceptive” court system and the
North itself (1893-1901) |
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In what time period can best
be described as a time when blacks faced repeated mob violence and Union troops
had to defend them? More Democrats were being elected and Republicans were
watching their power base decline. Republicans in Congress did however pass
the Civil Rights Acts to allow blacks to sue in federal courts if they were
not allowed to use public accommodations. a. In the first two years
after the Civil War (1865-1867) b. In the first five years
after Military Reconstruction started (1867-1872) c. In the second five years of
Military Reconstruction(1872-1877) d. In the ten years after the
agreement to remove Union troops from the South (1877-1887) e. In the six years of a shift
in the South to such things as new state laws (1887-1893) f. In the eight years of
acceptance of the South’s actions by an “unreceptive” court system and the
North itself (1893-1901) |
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