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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the person whose refusal to give up his/her bus seat in the 1960s sparked the civil rights movement?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Parker Rose.
(d) Rosie the Riveter.

2. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?
(a) Michael Brown.
(b) Amadou Diallo.
(c) Bronwin Michaels.
(d) Rudy Giuliani.

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

4. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) Private education.
(b) Hospitals.
(c) His bank account.
(d) The Police Department.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?

2. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?

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

4. Which Arkansas Congressman believed that school desegregation cases were based on the work of communists?

5. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?

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