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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) 100.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 20.

2. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?
(a) Helping the newly freed find jobs.
(b) Giving furniture to the recently emancipated.
(c) Moving newly freedmen North.
(d) Reallocating abandoned southern land to newly freed people.

3. What is the name of the area of Detroit to which Blacks moved during the Great Migration?
(a) Black Bottom.
(b) Black Village.
(c) Black mountain.
(d) Black Valley.

4. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Incitement.
(b) Awakening.
(c) Kindling.
(d) Firewood.

5. The NAACP was not allowed to resume operations in Alabama until what year?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2014.

Short Answer 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?

2. As a means of targeting NAACP members, what state required that the organization filed membership lists?

3. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?

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

5. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?

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