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

2. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?
(a) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(b) Treating African Americans as second-class citizens.
(c) Denying citizens due process.
(d) Discriminating based on race or religion.

3. When did Frank Stevenson work in a Richmond shipyard?
(a) World War I.
(b) 1960s.
(c) World War II.
(d) 1930s.

4. How does Rothstein explain how places like Ferguson, MO got to be so racially homogenous?
(a) Exclusionary zoning kept black families from integrating with whites in middle-class neighborhoods.
(b) Wages were so low that African-American families could not afford to move into those neighborhoods.
(c) Racial violence kept black families from moving out of their slums.
(d) Housing policies trapped black families in overcrowded slums.

5. What is de facto 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is de jure segregation?

3. What effect does Rothstein say the federal government had on segregation in housing?

4. What does Rothstein say the state of the housing market was from 1930 through the 1950s?

5. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?

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