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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: White Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused northern troops to withdraw from the South after 1877?
(a) Presidential election.
(b) Expiration of a treaty period.
(c) Demonstrable improvements in integration.
(d) Guerilla warfare.

2. What was the effect of sharecropping on African-American families?
(a) Built equity.
(b) Concentrated them in slums.
(c) Denied them wages.
(d) Subjected them to mass incarceration.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the case that resulted in the decision that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?

2. How does Rothstein characterize the nature of the sales when blockbusters sold to African Americans?

3. What does Beryl Satter say was one of the consequences of buying from blockbusters?

4. What does Rothstein say caused many black families to lose the homes they bought from blockbusters?

5. What does Rothstein say black families were unprepared to do as a consequence of purchasing from blockbusters?

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