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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue & Chapter 1 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?
(a) Rudy Giuliani.
(b) Amadou Diallo.
(c) Bronwin Michaels.
(d) Michael Brown.

3. After Diallo’s murder, what did Mayor Giuliani say the community’s real issue was?
(a) Racism against police.
(b) Violence against police.
(c) Policies against police.
(d) Bad attitude toward police.

4. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?
(a) James Garfield.
(b) James Jameson.
(c) James Johnson.
(d) James Jefferson.

5. In which newspaper was the author’s initial piece about “white rage” published?
(a) Milwaukee Tribune.
(b) New York Times.
(c) Washington Post.
(d) Chicago Defender.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the Prologue?

2. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?

3. What was not one of the things that Blacks be arrested for under the Black Codes?

4. From where did Amadou Diallo emigrate?

5. What three things did the Radical Republicans seek for Blacks?

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