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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Mississippi Chronicle.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The Chicago Defender.

2. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Libya.
(c) Lusitania.
(d) Liberia.

3. From where did Amadou Diallo emigrate?
(a) North Africa.
(b) West Africa.
(c) South Africa.
(d) South America.

4. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?
(a) Trump’s presidential victory.
(b) The murder or Amadou Diallo.
(c) The 13th Amendment.
(d) The murder of George Floyd.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?

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

3. What is the title of the Prologue?

4. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?

5. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?

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