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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rothstein say the people in charge of FHA’s reaction was to their organization’s own findings?
(a) They started to remedy segregated neighborhoods.
(b) They set a date to change to a non-segregation policy.
(c) They shifted to a policy of inclusive covenants.
(d) They did not change the FHA’s discriminatory policies.

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

3. What is redlining?
(a) Increasing the amount a family has to put down to get a mortgage.
(b) Refusing to offer mortgages to black families in certain areas.
(c) Placing neighborhoods next to industrial neighborhoods.
(d) Charging higher interest on a managing.

4. When does Rothstein say a federal appeal court finally determined that racially restrictive covenants were unconstitutional?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1988.
(d) 2004.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the PWA end?

2. What does Rothstein say the Department of Housing and Urban Development do when the Supreme Court delivered a 1971 decision that said they had to construct projects in predominantly-white neighborhoods?

3. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?

4. How does Rothstein characterize the justifications planning committees used for segregation and discrimination when they knew the Constitutional requirement?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did civil rights groups shifted their strategies in the 1960s, according to Rothstein?

2. How did life change in the South in 1877?

3. What role does Rothstein say the federal government had to play in segregating America’s housing?

4. How did the New Deal affect segregation of housing in the U.S.?

5. What strategies would blockbusters use to create panic in white families?

6. What does Rothstein cite as evidence that the government is obligated to remedy segregation?

7. What backing does Rothstein say the FHA presented to support its claim that African Americans lowered property values?

8. How was housing policy affected by the 1968 Jones decision?

9. How did community associations evolve out of racially restrictive covenants?

10. What effect does Rothstein say Woodrow Wilson had on integration in the U.S. government?

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