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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Black Codes?
(a) A series of laws targeting and only applicable to Black Americans.
(b) Dress codes at all black schools.
(c) Laws restricting Blacks from holding public office.
(d) A secret language developed by the Black community.

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

3. What was not one of the things that Blacks be arrested for under the Black Codes?
(a) Vagrancy.
(b) Lack of employment.
(c) Gainful employment.
(d) Hunting and fishing.

4. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Black Bottom.

5. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?
(a) Government Officials, legislators, and plantation owners.
(b) Government officials, legislators and police officers.
(c) Plantation Owners, legislators, the media.
(d) Legislators, laborers, journalists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?

2. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?

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

4. Who is the author of the book White Rage?

5. What did James Madison call America’s “original sin”?

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