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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: State-Sanctioned Violence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?
(a) Demonstrable improvements in integration.
(b) Presidential election.
(c) Guerilla warfare.
(d) Expiration of a treaty period.

2. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(b) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.
(c) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.
(d) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.

3. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Tax receipts from neighborhoods where African Americans moved in.
(b) Stories where integration drew people willing to pay to live in an integrated neighborhood.
(c) Sales data from integrated and segregated neighborhoods outside Newark NJ.
(d) Data from neighborhoods where blacks were drawn in to pay higher prices.

4. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?
(a) Used the plan anyway.
(b) Revised it to remove any reference to race.
(c) Revised it to make the policy economic, not based on race.
(d) Revised it to make it more inclusive.

5. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Richmond, VA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rothstein say blockbusting had its roots?

2. Who was the leader of the riot at Bill Myers’ house?

3. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?

4. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?

5. How big was the mob that threw rocks at Wilbur Gary’s house?

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