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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 did the development try to do to get Gary out of the development?
(a) Make him pay for his police protection.
(b) Charge him extra for his water and sewer services.
(c) Turn off his electricity.
(d) Buy his house for more than he paid for it.

2. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1947.

3. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?
(a) Blacks were kept out of government.
(b) Northern whites renewed oversight of the south.
(c) The KKK was forced to withdraw from public.
(d) Blacks gained representation in government.

4. What does Rothstein say was the evidence the FHA used to back up the claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?
(a) Anecdotes from homeowners in Kentucky.
(b) There was no hard evidence.
(c) Generalizations about the purity of races.
(d) Years of property value data.

5. What was the first city in which whites concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Baltimore.
(c) New York.
(d) Detroit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

2. What evidence does Rothstein say contradicts this claim that African Americans in a white neighborhood would decrease property value and therefore increase losses?

3. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?

4. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?

5. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?

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