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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?
(a) 29.
(b) 41.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

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

3. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?
(a) He enacted strict anti-racist policy.
(b) He touted the excellence of the NYPD.
(c) He immediately mandated implicit bias training for all officers.
(d) He swiftly arrested the police officers involved.

4. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?
(a) The Enforcement Act.
(b) The Anti-Racism Act.
(c) The Encroachment Act.
(d) The Implementation Act.

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 Dred Scott Decision.
(d) The Simon Johnson Decision.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?

4. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?

5. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?

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