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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?
(a) Cocaine was considered legal.
(b) Cocaine possession got more time than crack.
(c) Possession of either drugs got the same amount of time.
(d) Crack possession got more time than cocaine.

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

3. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?
(a) Herman Melville.
(b) Plessy Ferguson.
(c) Carol Anderson.
(d) Herman Talmage.

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

5. 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) Parker Rose.
(b) Rosa Parks.
(c) Rosie the Riveter.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?

2. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?

3. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?

4. Former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele accused the Trump campaign of having been assisted and supported by Russia for how long?

5. In Ohio, a series of voting laws including literacy tests resulted in 12% of absentee ballots being tossed for what?

(see the answer key)

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