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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 100.
(d) 20.

2. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?
(a) 29.
(b) 4.
(c) 41.
(d) 2.

3. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?
(a) $35.10.
(b) $10.35.
(c) $351.00.
(d) $3.51.

4. After the Supreme Court handed down two rulings requiring schools to reopen, what method of keeping schools segregated was employed?
(a) Education Equity Plan.
(b) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
(c) Freedom of Education Act.
(d) Freedom of Choice Plan.

5. What year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1746.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?

3. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?

4. What “top secret” report “detailed America’s descent into a second-class power”?

5. Which tax supports public school education?

(see the answer key)

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