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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Red Scare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the 15th Amendment ratified, granting black men the right to vote?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1870.

2. At what kind of location was a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America held on September 30, 1919?
(a) A church.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A private home.
(d) A town hall.

3. Which black author and activist coined the term "the Red Summer" (66)?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) James Weldon Johnson.
(d) Zora Neale Hurston.

4. What did the Washington, D.C. police do when "many of the marchers were grabbed, shoved, and knocked down" (46) during Alice Paul's suffrage parade?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They arrested the marchers.
(c) They called off the march.
(d) They arrested the culprits.

5. Which amendment was concerned with women's right to vote?
(a) The 4th.
(b) The 23rd.
(c) The 19th.
(d) The 12th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

2. On what date in 1919 did a major race riot begin in Washington, D.C.?

3. What was the intended function of the new bureau called the General Intelligence Division?

4. How many black citizens lived in Forsythe County, Georgia at the beginning of 1919?

5. The leader of the new bureau named the General Intelligence Division created a filing system containing detailed information about how many people?

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