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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does HUAC stand for?
(a) House Un-American Academy of Colleges.
(b) House of United Academic Commission.
(c) House of Unilateral Academic Correspondences.
(d) House Un-American Activities Commission.

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

3. 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) Bartering.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Peonage.
(d) Peonies.

4. 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 Southern Principles.
(b) The Declaration of Constitutional Principles.
(c) The Constitution of Southern States.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

5. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?
(a) Carol Anderson.
(b) Herman Talmage.
(c) Plessy Ferguson.
(d) Herman Melville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?

2. Who is the man who killed Hampton Smith for his brutal behavior?

3. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?

4. Who was president when Sputnik was launched?

5. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?

(see the answer key)

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