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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?
(a) Better lawyers.
(b) Better hospitals.
(c) Better restaurants.
(d) Better schools.

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

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

4. After Diallo’s murder, what did Black Americans express concern over with regard to the New York Police Department?
(a) Racial profiling.
(b) Lack of force.
(c) Community policing.
(d) Low wages.

5. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?
(a) The Ossian Sweet Decision.
(b) The Frederick Douglass Decision.
(c) The Simon Johnson Decision.
(d) The Dred Scott Decision.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?

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

3. Who was arrested after the confrontation at Dr. Sweet’s house?

4. 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?

5. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?

(see the answer key)

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