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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: “Own Your Own Home”.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?
(a) Lynching and other forms of terrorism.
(b) Wage suppression and wage theft.
(c) Public housing.
(d) Mass incarceration.

2. What is de jure segregation?
(a) White supremacist threats keeping races apart.
(b) Private decisions keeping races apart.
(c) Geographical features keeping races apart.
(d) Government policies keeping races apart.

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

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

5. Where does Rothstein say Langston Hughes grew up?
(a) In a segregated neighborhood.
(b) In a comfortable suburb.
(c) In a slum.
(d) In an integrating neighborhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the U.S. Housing Authority encourage whites to move?

2. Who does Rothstein say led the movement to develop zoning ordinances in every municipality to separate the races?

3. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?

4. When did the Public Works Administration create jobs and housing for whites only?

5. When did the Tennessee Valley Authority create jobs and housing for whites only?

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