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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?
(a) Oath of Allegiance.
(b) Oath of office.
(c) Hippocratic Oath.
(d) Iron Clad Test Oath.

3. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?
(a) Rents decreased.
(b) Rents increased.
(c) People moved back South.
(d) Blacks moved to Europe.

4. What is the period of American History following the Civil War?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Reallocation.
(c) World War I.
(d) Redistribution.

5. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Sweet v. Department of Housing.
(c) Parmalee v. Morris.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

6. Where did the 2014 police murder take place?
(a) New York City.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Ferguson, Missouri.
(d) South Carolina.

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

8. Which war gave Blacks the opportunity to leave the South to find work in the North?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) World War III.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War I.

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

10. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?
(a) Black Bottom.
(b) New York City.
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Mississippi.

11. What is the name of the area of Detroit to which Blacks moved during the Great Migration?
(a) Black Bottom.
(b) Black mountain.
(c) Black Valley.
(d) Black Village.

12. After Diallo’s murder, what did Mayor Giuliani say the community’s real issue was?
(a) Bad attitude toward police.
(b) Racism against police.
(c) Violence against police.
(d) Policies against police.

13. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?
(a) The murder or Amadou Diallo.
(b) The murder of George Floyd.
(c) Trump’s presidential victory.
(d) The 13th Amendment.

14. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?
(a) Reallocating abandoned southern land to newly freed people.
(b) Giving furniture to the recently emancipated.
(c) Moving newly freedmen North.
(d) Helping the newly freed find jobs.

15. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Firewood.
(c) Kindling.
(d) Incitement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?

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

3. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?

4. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?

5. What is the Great Migration?

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