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

2. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) South America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) North America.

3. 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.

4. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Lusitania.
(c) Liberia.
(d) Libya.

5. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 29.
(d) 41.

6. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?
(a) He enacted strict anti-racist policy.
(b) He touted the excellence of the NYPD.
(c) He swiftly arrested the police officers involved.
(d) He immediately mandated implicit bias training for all officers.

7. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1899.

8. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1954.
(d) 2019.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 19th.
(c) The 12th.
(d) The 16th.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of African Americans were in the Union army?

2. What year did the Civil War begin?

3. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?

4. When did race riots occur in the North?

5. In which newspaper was the author’s initial piece about “white rage” published?

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