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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) Property.
(b) Education.
(c) Excise.
(d) Income.

2. The southern closure of school affected whom?
(a) Black and white Students.
(b) White students only.
(c) Had no effect on students.
(d) Blacks students only.

3. What drug became prevalent in African American communities as a result of Reagan’s drug trafficking ring?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Crack.
(c) Methamphetamine.
(d) Heroin.

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

5. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?
(a) The Reagan administration.
(b) The California Police Department.
(c) Anti-Sandinista guerrillas.
(d) The United States military.

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

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

8. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1962.

9. Which two Supreme Court Justices during both the Nixon and Reagan administration supported legislation that would roll back civil rights?
(a) Rehnquist and McDonald.
(b) Ginsburg and Alito.
(c) Burger and Rehnquist.
(d) Burger and Reagan.

10. The NAACP was not allowed to resume operations in Alabama until what year?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2014.

11. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?
(a) The Southern Principles.
(b) The Constitution of Southern States.
(c) The Declaration of Constitutional Principles.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

12. Some argued that Brown stemmed from what type of manipulation?
(a) Communist.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Congressional.
(d) Republican.

13. Who was president at the start of the Civil Rights Era?
(a) Obama.
(b) Trump.
(c) Reagan.
(d) Nixon.

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

15. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) The Civil Rights Era.
(b) Rolling Back Civil Rights.
(c) Reconstructing Civil Rights.
(d) Rolling Back Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?

2. Amite County Mississippi put forth $30.24 per white student and how much per Black student?

3. What does NDEA stand for?

4. In response to Cooper v. Aaron, the Governor of Arkansas did what to public schools?

5. Which national organization does Anderson name as supporting the civil rights movement at the start of Chapter 4?

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