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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Bartering.
(b) Peonies.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Peonage.

2. 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.

3. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?
(a) The Black Panther Party.
(b) NAACP.
(c) The Civil Rights Committee.
(d) The KKK.

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

5. After the Supreme Court handed down two rulings requiring schools to reopen, what method of keeping schools segregated was employed?
(a) Freedom of Education Act.
(b) Freedom of Choice Plan.
(c) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
(d) Education Equity Plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?

2. What year was the KKK founded?

3. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?

4. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?

5. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?

(see the answer key)

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