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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Peonage.
(c) Peonies.
(d) Bartering.

2. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?
(a) Plantation Owners, legislators, the media.
(b) Legislators, laborers, journalists.
(c) Government officials, legislators and police officers.
(d) Government Officials, legislators, and plantation owners.

3. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
(a) 10.
(b) 28.
(c) 0.
(d) 150.

4. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?
(a) CIA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) YMCA.
(d) AARP.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Deputy Director of the National Security Council under Reagan?

2. Which civil rights leader spoke of his “Dream” in front of 250,000 people on the National Mall?

3. What strategy did Black Americans adopt during the civil rights movement?

4. In addition to student aid cuts, Reagan reduced what school program by $1.46 billion?

5. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?

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