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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Private Agreements, Government Enforcement.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the “Own Your Own Home” campaign offer whites the ability to leave behind them?
(a) History.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Racial strife.
(d) Political powerlessness.

2. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Racially restrictive covenants.
(b) Apartheid.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Reign of Terror.

3. What was the case that resulted in the decision that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.
(b) Shelley v. Kramer.
(c) Buchanan v. Warley.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

4. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?
(a) In World War I.
(b) In construction.
(c) In World War II.
(d) In the stock market.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the HOLC change the face of mortgages in 1933?

2. What percentage of the mortgages in the U.S. does Rothstein say were the FHA and the Veterans Administration insuring by 1950?

3. Why were blacks primarily prevented from buying houses?

4. What was the effect of the Hamburg massacre?

5. What development gave the Mereday family business?

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