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

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

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 7: IRS Support and Compliant Regulators.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1928.

2. Who created a community composition rule as the Secretary of the Interior?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Harold Hoffman

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

4. What kind of zoning were African Americans most likely to live in?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Multi-family.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Single-family.

5. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?
(a) Establish racial neighborhood zones.
(b) Determine where industrial and African-American neighborhoods could be.
(c) Push for integration in neighborhoods.
(d) Demolish integrated neighborhoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

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

3. What recommendation did President Hoover’s homeownership team make, in terms of Negro housing?

4. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?

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

(see the answer key)

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