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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Local Tactics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC), the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Comptroller of the Currency should have done but did not do?
(a) Forced local governments to accept integrated developments.
(b) Withdrawn federal support for discriminatory organizations.
(c) Sued towns that raised requirements for integrated developments.
(d) Forced the police to suppress move-in riots when black families moved into integrated neighborhoods.

2. Why stance does Rothstein say local governments took, with regard to racially restrictive covenants?
(a) They refused to enforce them.
(b) They turned a blind eye to them.
(c) They prevented their police from enforcing them.
(d) They actively promoted them.

3. What does Rothstein say makes the racially restrictive covenants a state-sponsored strategy for de jure segregation?
(a) The police enforced them.
(b) The HOLC required them.
(c) The FHA required them.
(d) The courts enforced them.

4. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Camden, NJ.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rothstein say public housing was originally intended for?

2. What does the 13th Amendment prohibit?

3. What did the FHA’s 1948 report conclude about prices in integrated neighborhoods?

4. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?

5. What role does Rothstein say churches and synagogues would play in segregation?

(see the answer key)

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