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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?
(a) Not owning a home.
(b) Not taking care of one’s children.
(c) Not having gainful employment.
(d) Not being clean.

2. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?
(a) They were not considered citizens.
(b) The did not own homes.
(c) They were not interested in owning homes.
(d) They did not need homes.

3. Who is the man who killed Hampton Smith for his brutal behavior?
(a) Sid Smith.
(b) Sidney Johnson.
(c) Sidney Jones.
(d) John Sidney.

4. What did James Madison call America’s “original sin”?
(a) World War I.
(b) Segregation.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Chattel slavery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?

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

3. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?

4. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?

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

(see the answer key)

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