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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which tax supports public school education?
(a) Education.
(b) Income.
(c) Property.
(d) Excise.

2. Which President continued Nixon’s work of rolling back civil rights?
(a) Abe Lincoln.
(b) Jimmy Carter.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

3. What national crisis did Reagan shift his focus on beginning in 1982?
(a) Housing.
(b) Education.
(c) Financial.
(d) Drugs.

4. What was one method used to integrate schools?
(a) Biking.
(b) Busing.
(c) Busking.
(d) Flying.

5. Under Reagan’s administration, a series of student aid cuts worked to reduce Black enrollment by how much?
(a) 35%.
(b) 8%.
(c) 80%.
(d) 20%.

6. Which attorney argued in favor of Brown v. Board?
(a) Marshal Thomas.
(b) Strom Thurman.
(c) Marshall Thurman.
(d) Thurgood Marshall.

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

8. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(b) The King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
(c) The Leaders of the Southern Christian Association.
(d) The Confederation of Southern Christian Kings.

9. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?
(a) George Wallace.
(b) George Jefferson.
(c) George Walters.
(d) George Washington.

10. What does HUAC stand for?
(a) House Un-American Academy of Colleges.
(b) House Un-American Activities Commission.
(c) House of United Academic Commission.
(d) House of Unilateral Academic Correspondences.

11. In 1949, what governor proposed an amendment that would send money to private white schools and get rid of public schools?
(a) Herman Talmage.
(b) Plessy Ferguson.
(c) Carol Anderson.
(d) Herman Melville.

12. What strategy did Black Americans adopt during the civil rights movement?
(a) Violence.
(b) Stop and frisk.
(c) Nonviolence.
(d) Migration.

13. According to Anderson, what happened to Brown after the signing the Southern Manifesto?
(a) It thrived.
(b) It evolved.
(c) It educated.
(d) It collapsed.

14. Which law required equal education opportunity for all regardless of race?
(a) Blue v. The Department of Education.
(b) Shelley v. Kraemer.
(c) Sweet v. Detroit.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

15. What was the name of the group that created recommendations introduced in November 1955 to keep Virginia schools segregated?
(a) The Virginia Education Commission.
(b) The Garland initiative.
(c) The Gray Commission.
(d) The Senatorial Educational Plan Against School Integration.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the launching of Sputnik, many pointed to America’s failed what?

2. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?

3. What magazine, when discussing to the lack of education available for Black Americans, referred to them as our countries most wasted resource?

4. What is the title of Chapter 4?

5. 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?

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