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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?
(a) Police Officer.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Teacher.

2. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?
(a) People moved back South.
(b) Rents increased.
(c) Rents decreased.
(d) Blacks moved to Europe.

3. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Sweet v. Department of Housing.
(d) Parmalee v. Morris.

4. Who was arrested after the confrontation at Dr. Sweet’s house?
(a) Dr. Sweet’s child.
(b) Police officers who didn’t help.
(c) Those who threw things at his home.
(d) Dr. Sweet, his wife and friends.

5. What year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1746.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?

2. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?

3. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?

4. What is the title of the Prologue?

5. What year was the KKK founded?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the “Red Summer”? When and where did it take place?

2. How does Anderson define "white rage”?

3. What were the Black Codes?

4. Which court decision upheld racially restrictive housing policies?

5. In which part of Detroit did most Black people live after the Great Migration? Describe the conditions there.

6. When did The Civil War Begin? What started it?

7. Who was President after Lincoln’s assasination? In what ways did he attempt to return to slavery?

8. What was the Homestead Act and why did it not benefit African Americans?

9. What was the Chicago Defender and what role did it have, or was it suspected to have, in the Great Migration?

10. Describe the peonage system.

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