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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?
(a) The Anti-Racism Act.
(b) The Enforcement Act.
(c) The Implementation Act.
(d) The Encroachment Act.

4. What year were the Black Codes passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 2010.
(c) 1776.
(d) 1865.

5. What is the Great Migration?
(a) Exodus of Whites to Africa.
(b) Exodus of Blacks to Africa.
(c) Exodus of Blacks to the South.
(d) Exodus of Blacks to the North.

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

7. Who created the American Colonization Society?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Hank Williams.
(c) Henry Garfield.
(d) Henry Clay.

8. What year was the KKK founded?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1765.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1965.

9. Who is the man who killed Hampton Smith for his brutal behavior?
(a) Sid Smith.
(b) Sidney Jones.
(c) John Sidney.
(d) Sidney Johnson.

10. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?
(a) Not taking care of one’s children.
(b) Not having gainful employment.
(c) Not owning a home.
(d) Not being clean.

11. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?
(a) The Ossian Sweet Decision.
(b) The Frederick Douglass Decision.
(c) The Dred Scott Decision.
(d) The Simon Johnson Decision.

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

13. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?
(a) Legal right.
(b) Birth Right.
(c) Rite of passage.
(d) Sin

14. What year did Dr. Sweet move into a white neighborhood?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1940.

15. What was not one of the things that Blacks be arrested for under the Black Codes?
(a) Vagrancy.
(b) Gainful employment.
(c) Hunting and fishing.
(d) Lack of employment.

Short Answer Questions

1. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?

2. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?

3. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?

4. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?

5. What year did the Civil War begin?

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