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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?
(a) The Garland initiative.
(b) The Virginia Education Commission.
(c) The Gray Commission.
(d) The Senatorial Educational Plan Against School Integration.

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

4. Which states’ determination to uphold American slavery led to the Civil War?
(a) Western.
(b) Eastern.
(c) Southern.
(d) Northern.

5. 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) Peonage.
(b) Peonies.
(c) Bartering.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?

2. 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?

3. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?

4. Which war gave Blacks the opportunity to leave the South to find work in the North?

5. Who created the American Colonization Society?

(see the answer key)

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