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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. The Perrow plan proposed to cut public school funding while funneling tax payer dollars into what?
(a) Hospitals.
(b) Private education.
(c) His bank account.
(d) The Police Department.

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

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

4. 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) Interrogation.
(c) Interposition.
(d) Intergeneration.

5. A March 1973 court decision ruled that “there is no fundamental right” to what in the Constitution?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Healthcare.
(c) Education.
(d) Housing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1970, what act was renewed for another five years?

2. Profits from cocaine trafficked by the CIA to California was used to arm whom?

3. The southern closure of school affected whom?

4. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?

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

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. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

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

4. In what ways did those who disagreed with Brown try to crush it?

5. Describe The Perrow Plan.

6. Which ruling demanded that Brown must be obeyed? What did states do subsequently to avoid integrating?

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

8. How did communism become intertwined with school integration and Brown?

9. How did Nixon and others during his presidency try to redefine racism?

10. What Russian event sparked Americans to reevaluate their education system? Who was President at this time and how did he react?

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