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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?
(a) Cocaine was considered legal.
(b) Crack possession got more time than cocaine.
(c) Possession of either drugs got the same amount of time.
(d) Cocaine possession got more time than crack.

2. Which civil rights leader spoke of his “Dream” in front of 250,000 people on the National Mall?
(a) Malcom X.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) John F. Kennedy.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. As the nation began to lag behind because of lack of education, who did some Southerners placed blame?
(a) White teachers.
(b) Black teachers.
(c) Black parents.
(d) White parents.

4. What is the name of the satellite the Soviets launched in 1957?
(a) Moscow Missile.
(b) Kremlin Kreation.
(c) USSRocket.
(d) Sputnik.

5. What “top secret” report “detailed America’s descent into a second-class power”?
(a) The Johnson Report.
(b) The Garland Report.
(c) The Gaither Report.
(d) The Eisenhower Report.

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

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

8. Beginning in 1956, Southern states passed a series of law banning what organizing from operating within its borders?
(a) The NYPD.
(b) The WCC.
(c) AAA.
(d) The NAACP.

9. Who was the undercover police officer in the 1999 Texas drug raid?
(a) Tom Coleman.
(b) John Goodman.
(c) Tom Goodman.
(d) John Coleman.

10. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?
(a) Carl Elliot.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Elliot Grossman.
(d) T.S. Elliot.

11. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?
(a) 98%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 56%.

12. In which town in Texas did the controversial 1999 drug raid take place?
(a) Houston.
(b) Tulia.
(c) Tulsa.
(d) Austin.

13. Due to the resistance in both the North and South to integrating schools, Congress had to pass what law?
(a) The Homestead Act.
(b) The Southern Manifesto.
(c) The Southern School Integration Act.
(d) Brown v. Board II.

14. People began to see America’s educational struggles as a direct result of what?
(a) The Emancipation Proclamation.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Brown v. Board.
(d) Southern Manifesto.

15. What does Jim Crow refer to?
(a) Equal Education Laws.
(b) Separate but equal laws.
(c) Anti-racist laws.
(d) The head of the NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the person whose refusal to give up his/her bus seat in the 1960s sparked the civil rights movement?

2. During the time of the Civil Rights Act, the President tried to redefine racism as an individual what?

3. In which decade did the civil rights movement begin?

4. Who was Deputy Director of the National Security Council under Reagan?

5. Which two Supreme Court Justices during both the Nixon and Reagan administration supported legislation that would roll back civil rights?

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