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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. Which of Obama’s programs was targeted by Trump?
(a) The Civil Rights Act.
(b) The Affordable Care Act.
(c) The Voter Rights Act.
(d) The Equal Opportunity Act.

2. What powerful force did Blacks use to expose to the world how they have been treated?
(a) The media.
(b) The Internet.
(c) Social Media.
(d) Email campaigns.

3. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?
(a) Freedom of choice.
(b) Integration.
(c) Private schools.
(d) Segregation.

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

5. When the Fourth Circuit Ruled that schools must integrate by 1959, county supervisors did what to divert money from public schools?
(a) Abolished the property tax.
(b) Increased property tax.
(c) Reduced income tax.
(d) Increased income tax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Dr. Sweet move into a white neighborhood?

2. What word describes the claim made in the Deep South and Virginia stating they did not have to follow federal laws with which they disagreed?

3. People began to see America’s educational struggles as a direct result of what?

4. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?

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

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