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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was the mayor of New York in 1999?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Ossian Sweet.
(c) Rudy Giuliani.
(d) WEB Dubois.
2. After Diallo’s murder, what did Black Americans express concern over with regard to the New York Police Department?
(a) Racial profiling.
(b) Low wages.
(c) Lack of force.
(d) Community policing.
3. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?
(a) Oath of office.
(b) Iron Clad Test Oath.
(c) Hippocratic Oath.
(d) Oath of Allegiance.
4. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) Africa.
(b) South America.
(c) North America.
(d) Europe.
5. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?
(a) Rite of passage.
(b) Birth Right.
(c) Sin
(d) Legal right.
6. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?
(a) Michael Brown.
(b) Amadou Diallo.
(c) Bronwin Michaels.
(d) Rudy Giuliani.
7. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?
(a) The 19th.
(b) The 13th.
(c) The 16th.
(d) The 12th.
8. Who created the American Colonization Society?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Henry Clay.
(c) Hank Williams.
(d) Henry Garfield.
9. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1925.
10. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?
(a) Reallocating abandoned southern land to newly freed people.
(b) Helping the newly freed find jobs.
(c) Moving newly freedmen North.
(d) Giving furniture to the recently emancipated.
11. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) 1925.
(b) 2019.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1919.
12. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?
(a) He enacted strict anti-racist policy.
(b) He immediately mandated implicit bias training for all officers.
(c) He swiftly arrested the police officers involved.
(d) He touted the excellence of the NYPD.
13. What three things did the Radical Republicans seek for Blacks?
(a) Land, citizenship, and the right to vote.
(b) Land, clothing, and the right to vote.
(c) Land, employment, and the right to vote.
(d) Land, citizenship, and automobiles.
14. What year were the Black Codes passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1865.
(d) 2010.
15. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?
(a) Liberia.
(b) Lusitania.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Libya.
Short Answer Questions
1. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?
2. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?
3. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?
4. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?
5. Who is the man who killed Hampton Smith for his brutal behavior?
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