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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Voting Rights Acts was a result of what 1965 event?
(a) The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) School desegregation.
(c) The Red Summer.
(d) Bloody Sunday.

2. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?
(a) 56%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 98%.
(d) 10%.

3. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?
(a) The Declaration of Constitutional Principles.
(b) The Southern Principles.
(c) The Constitution of Southern States.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

4. In Virginia, what percent of Blacks attended desegregated schools?
(a) 99.9.
(b) 25.2.
(c) 1.63.
(d) 15.

5. In 1970, what act was renewed for another five years?
(a) The Freedom Act.
(b) The Voting Rights Act.
(c) The Civil Rights Act.
(d) The Equality Opportunity Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?

2. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?

3. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?

4. What was one of the events that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

5. Some argued that Brown stemmed from what type of manipulation?

(see the answer key)

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