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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which war gave Blacks the opportunity to leave the South to find work in the North?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War III.
(d) World War I.

3. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?
(a) Factory.
(b) Government.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Hospitality.

4. As the nation began to lag behind because of lack of education, who did some Southerners placed blame?
(a) White parents.
(b) Black teachers.
(c) Black parents.
(d) White teachers.

5. After Diallo’s murder, what did Black Americans express concern over with regard to the New York Police Department?
(a) Low wages.
(b) Lack of force.
(c) Community policing.
(d) Racial profiling.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?

3. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?

4. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?

5. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?

(see the answer key)

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