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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to student aid cuts, Reagan reduced what school program by $1.46 billion?
(a) Art.
(b) Physical Education.
(c) Nutrition.
(d) Music.

2. After the Supreme Court handed down two rulings requiring schools to reopen, what method of keeping schools segregated was employed?
(a) Freedom of Education Act.
(b) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
(c) Freedom of Choice Plan.
(d) Education Equity Plan.

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

4. What powerful force did Blacks use to expose to the world how they have been treated?
(a) The Internet.
(b) Social Media.
(c) The media.
(d) Email campaigns.

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

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

7. During the time of the Civil Rights Act, the President tried to redefine racism as an individual what?
(a) Act.
(b) Inclination.
(c) Aberration.
(d) Antagonist.

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

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

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

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. What was one of the events that led to the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
(a) The killing of Amadou Diallo.
(b) The killing of Michael Brown.
(c) The murder of two young girls in Birmingham, AL.
(d) The murder of George Floyd.

13. 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?
(a) Interlocution.
(b) Intergeneration.
(c) Interrogation.
(d) Interposition.

14. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?
(a) NAACP.
(b) The KKK.
(c) The Civil Rights Committee.
(d) The Black Panther Party.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?

2. Richard Conley said what agency had no intention of enforcing Brown?

3. In an effort to prevent school integration, The Texas Council proposed a Constitutional Amendment that would require whom to answer to Congress?

4. Gray’s Commission Plan was put into action in what year?

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

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