The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Richard Rothstein
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Richard Rothstein
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 167 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Racial Zoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1921.

2. What did the state of Montana ban in 1909?
(a) Employing African Americans.
(b) Intermarriage.
(c) Black business ownership.
(d) Selling homes to African Americans.

3. What role did Richmond police play in maintaining segregation?
(a) Murdering unarmed black people to keep them out of the city.
(b) Vandalizing model homes in integrated developments.
(c) Allowing racist mobs to commit crimes with impunity.
(d) Harassing blacks with petty arrests.

4. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?
(a) Racially restrictive covenants.
(b) Fair share policies.
(c) Racial zoning ordinances.
(d) Inclusionary zoning ordinances.

5. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(b) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.
(c) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(d) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say is the main point of his book?

2. When did the PWA end?

3. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?

4. What is de facto segregation?

5. Of the 26 projects the PWA built in the northeast and Midwest in the 1930s, how many were internally integrated?

(see the answer key)

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