Question 1
Multiple Choice Question
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Who used threats and violence to make sure that African Americans did not express their civil rights?
Scalawags
Ku Klux Klan
Black Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Question 2
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Who believed that if African Americans gained an education and showed that they were worthwhile citizens with skills to offer society, the white-centered society would eventually see the value that they had?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
all of these answers are correct
Question 3
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Why was it especially difficult for African Americans to fight back against the Ku Klux Klan’s vicious attacks?

the Klan had the support of the Ku Klux Klan Act
the Klan had the support of many of the local sheriffs
all of these answers are correct
the Klan had the support of the Southern Republicans
Question 4
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How many different Native American tribes lived on the Great Plains?

7
3
15
31
Question 5
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The buffalo population on the Great Plains dropped from 13 million animals in 1860 to ________ individuals by 1900.
a few hundred
120,000
1.2 million
a few thousand
Question 6
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What was the name for white southerners who joined the Republican Party?

Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Black Republicans
Ku Klux Klan
Question 7
Multiple Choice Question
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What was the primary goal of the NAACP at its inception in 1919?
to eliminate discrimination against women
to ensure equal employment opportunities
to put an end to the lynching of African Americans
to expand on the idea of manifest destiny
Question 8
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Which school was the first American college to regularly admit African American students?

Howard University
Oberlin College
Tuskegee University
Fisk University
Question 9
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What was the name for northerners who went south to help with the rebuilding?
Ku Klux Klan
Scalawags
Black Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Question 10
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Who wrote the immensely popular book, Ramona, which laid out the cause of the Native American people?

Sarah Winnemucca
Chief Joseph
Helen Hunt Jackson
Hinmaton-Yalakitt
Question 11
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Who chronicled the grisly details of how lynching took the lives of a number of black citizens in Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Places?

all of these answers are correct
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
Question 12
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Who aimed to work within an unjust system as opposed to demanding immediate change for African Americans?
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
all of these answers are correct
Booker T. Washington
Question 13
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In the year and a half ending in June 1867, North and South Carolina reported ________ murders and 548 cases of assault against former slaves.

197
72
59
10
Question 14
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How many schools had the Freedmen’s Bureau established by 1867?

250,000
150
1,500
4,500
Question 15
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What did the Indian prophet named Wovoka preach to the Paiute Indians in 1889?

that participating in the Ghost Dance would spread disease across the white settlers
that participating in the Ghost Dance would help achieve a world full of goodness and bring the return of the almost extinct buffalo
all of these answers are correct
that participating in the Ghost Dance would please the God described to them by the Episcopalians