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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. What U.S. Constitutional Amendment provided that the right to vote should not be denied on account of race?

2. How did Jarvious Cotton's great-grandfather die?

3. When was the Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Act passed?

4. Where was the conflict labor camp the Parchman Farm established?

5. What does "caste" refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to the ermergence of slavery as the primary means for labor in the South?

2. What does the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution declare?

3. What was dedided in the case of California v. Acevedo?

4. How has the U.S. penal population changed from 1980 to today?

5. How do incarceration rates in the U.S. compare with those in other countries across the globe?

6. What was concluded in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

7. How did the concept of "race" emerge in America, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Rebirth of Caste"?

8. What is the Ku Klux Klan? What did the Ku Klux Klan acts dictate?

9. How does the author define "caste"? What is meant by "racial caste"?

10. How does the author use Jarvious Cotton as an example in the Introduction to The New Jim Crow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the penal population in the United States compared with other countries? What different elements contribute to this disparity? What actions has the U.S. taken to address the problems of mass incarceration?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Why was Brown v. Board of Education a significant Supreme Court ruling? How did this case change society between African Americans and whites in the South? How did it impact life in the North?

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