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panfilo · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

This image showing a group entering a speakeasy suggests that speakeasies were __________.

A) seedy and unpleasant
B) dark and dangerous
C) glamorous and mysterious
D) quiet and quaint

Question 2

How did the Civil Rights Act counteract Southern resistance and the oppression of freedmen?

A) It expanded the powers of the Freedmen's Bureau for two more years.
B) It outlawed Southern terror groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
C) It declared that all African Americans and persons born in the United States were citizens.
D) It abolished slavery in all Southern states.

Question 3

Why was Jefferson unable to fulfill his desire to create a republic of small independent farmers in the Northwest Territory?

A) Small farmers did not have the hard currency needed to purchase land at one dollar an acre.
B) Indians were allowed to remain in their ancestral lands.
C) The territories created in this region could not become states in their own right.
D) Southern protests forced Congress to open this region to slavery.

Question 4

The drawing The Black Codes in Action depicts the practice of __________.

A) allowing freedmen to rent land only in rural areas
B) terrorizing and lynching African American men by white supremacists
C) reestablishing the gang labor system through mass convictions of vagrancy
D) auctioning off the service of black men who were convicted of vagrancy

Question 5

The Black Panther Movement was established in 1966 by __________.

A) Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
B) Stokley Carmichael and Jim Bevel
C) Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
D) James Meredith and Diane Nash

Question 6

What did evangelical preacher Billy Sunday mean when he stated in a 1908 speech that his listeners should get on the water wagon; get on for the sake of your wife and babies?

A) Working-class laborers deserved to have a drink after finishing a hard day's work.
B) Temperance had positive benefits on health and thrift.
C) It was better for teenagers to drink supervised at home rather than risk drinking contaminated
moonshine.
D) Those who drank alcohol should give it up for the sake of their family's well-being.