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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did California pass Proposition 184, the Three Strikes Law?
2. The author asserts in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown" that drug offenses alone account for what fraction of the rise in the federal inmate population between 1985 and 2000?
3. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?
4. What Supreme Court Justice said of the Florida v. Bostick case that "the basis of the decision to single out particular passengers during a suspicionless sweep is less likely to be inarticulate than unspeakable"?
5. What word used in the Introduction refers to the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the impacts and repercussions of Bacon's Rebellion?
2. What does "Jim Crow" refer to?
3. What was concluded in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?
4. What were the "black codes" and what impact did they have?
5. What was dedided in the case of California v. Acevedo?
6. How did the concept of "race" emerge in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?
7. What led to the ermergence of slavery as the primary means for labor in the South?
8. What percentages do drug offenses account for in the rise of the federal inmate population and state prisoners, according to the author in Chapter 2: "The Lockdown"?
9. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?
10. What does a "consent search" refer to?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How has the federal government assisted local law enforcement in the pursuit of the War on Drugs? What are examples of assets granted to local law enforcement? What incentives do local law enforcement have for fighting the War on Drugs?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's metaphor of a birdcage in The New Jim Crow. To what is a birdcage compared? What comprises the bars of the cage? What does the author remark about the door of the cage?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the history of African slavery in the United States. When did slavery emerge? When did the Transatlantic Slave Trade end? When was slavery abolished and what forms of oppression followed it?
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