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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. Following Brown v. Board, great pains were taken to stop Blacks from doing what?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Voting.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Driving.

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

3. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?
(a) 7.2.
(b) 4.9.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.5.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Rather than being overtly racist, Richard Nixon and George Wallace began to use what?

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

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

4. Why were sentences for crack and cocaine thought to racially discriminate?

5. Which civil rights leader spoke of his “Dream” in front of 250,000 people on the National Mall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Black Panther Party? When was it formed and what made it different from the previous methods of the civil rights movement?

2. Describe The Perrow Plan.

3. What was the National Defense of Education Act? Why was it written? Name a key player involved in its implementation. Did this person believe in equal education for all?

4. What was the history of discriminatory practices in regards to African Americans and the vote prior to the Voting Rights Act?

5. Describe The Gray Commission Plan.

6. What was the civil rights movement?

7. Describe how Anderson explains the Reagan administration's “drug crisis.” How did it begin and what unethical things were done?

8. Describe the event that led to the Voting Rights Act.

9. What was the NAACP? What was it trying to do at the start of Chapter 3, according to Anderson?

10. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

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