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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. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?
(a) Because private developers refused to sell to them.
(b) Because the government would not back mortgages for their homes.
(c) Because communities refused to admit them.
(d) Because they could not afford them.

2. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Preserving communities.
(b) Integrating communities.
(c) Segregating communities.
(d) Relocating communities.

3. When did the U.S. start building public housing?
(a) New Deal.
(b) 1960s.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

4. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by restricting housing based on intermarriage?
(a) Richmond, VA.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Phoenix.

5. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?
(a) Housing was fully covered by anti-discrimination laws.
(b) Housing was not related to slavery.
(c) Housing was only accountable to the market.
(d) Housing was a human right.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

2. What position did Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., America’s pre-eminent landscape architect, take on integration in housing?

3. What did the Buchanan decision outlaw?

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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