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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Beginning in 1956, Southern states passed a series of law banning what organizing from operating within its borders?
(a) The WCC.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) The NYPD.
(d) AAA.

2. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?
(a) Atlantic.
(b) National Review.
(c) USA Today.
(d) Time.

3. What landmark Supreme Court case in Arkansas ruled that Brown must be obeyed?
(a) Cooper v. Aaron.
(b) Rock v. Little.
(c) George v. Smith.
(d) Howard v. Walters.

4. What drug became prevalent in African American communities as a result of Reagan’s drug trafficking ring?
(a) Crack.
(b) Methamphetamine.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Heroin.

5. In response to Cooper v. Aaron, the Governor of Arkansas did what to public schools?
(a) Segregated them.
(b) Opened them.
(c) Closed them.
(d) Integrated them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?

2. Who was Deputy Director of the National Security Council under Reagan?

3. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?

4. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?

5. Who created the American Colonization Society?

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