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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 Red Summer.
(b) Bloody Sunday.
(c) School desegregation.
(d) The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

2. Which President continued Nixon’s work of rolling back civil rights?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Abe Lincoln.

3. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?
(a) Blacks moved to Europe.
(b) Rents increased.
(c) People moved back South.
(d) Rents decreased.

4. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?
(a) James O. Eastland.
(b) Ezekiel Gathings.
(c) Eugene Cook.
(d) Franklin Frazier.

5. In which decade did the civil rights movement begin?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?

2. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?

3. The objective of the White Citizens Council that sprang up throughout the South was to do what?

4. What was one method used to integrate schools?

5. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?

(see the answer key)

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