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This activity contains 10 questions.

	By the beginning of the 1600s, the British colonies had passed laws making Africans slaves for life, and forbidding interracial marriages.    True  False

	Slavery in the United States rested on three central conditions: slavery was for adulthood, the status was earned through sale, and slaves were considered mere property.    True  False

	The survival of African culture can be most easily documented in folklore, religion, language, and music.    True  False

	President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on August 4, 1827.    True  False

	Plessy v. Ferguson was a United States Supreme Court decision that declared constitutional the use of poll taxes, literacy tests, and residency requirements to discourage Blacks from voting in elections.    True  False

	Booker T. Washington advocated the theory of the talented tenth, which argued that privileged Blacks must serve the other nine-tenths.    True  False

	The summer of 1967 saw so much interracial violence that it is commonly referred to as the "red summer."    True  False

	The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in 1942 to fight discrimination with nonviolent direct action, and they used sit-ins and freedom riders as some of their tactics.    True  False

	The primary motivation for the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case was the fact that Black schools were inferior to White schools.    True  False

	Malcolm X is famous for his "I Have a Dream" speech in which he said that he looked forward to the time when all Americans "will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!"    True  False

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