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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. Which U.S. president pushed African Americans out of government service?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower.
(c) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

2. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?
(a) He argued for a market-based approach to integrate.
(b) He argued for separate but equal housing.
(c) He argued in favor of segregated housing in 1918.
(d) He argued for integrated housing.

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

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

5. Which Constitutional Amendments does Rothstein say are violated by housing discrimination?
(a) 19th.
(b) 13th.
(c) 5th,13th, 14th.
(d) 2nd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?

2. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?

3. Which case made housing discrimination illegal as national policy?

4. What does Rothstein say was the main driver of de jure segregation?

5. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?

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