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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. In which decade did the civil rights movement begin?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1980s.

2. What 1986 Act passed by Congress enacted mandatory sentencing in for drug offenses?
(a) The Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
(b) The National Drug Free America Act.
(c) The Anti-Drug Treatment Act.
(d) The Abuse of Freedom Act.

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

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

5. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?
(a) CIA.
(b) NAACP.
(c) YMCA.
(d) AARP.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Anderson, what happened to Brown after the signing the Southern Manifesto?

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

3. 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?

4. Who was president at the start of the Civil Rights Era?

5. Who was the undercover police officer in the 1999 Texas drug raid?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

3. What was the Southern Manifesto, also called the Declaration of Constitutional Principles? How many members of Congress signed it and what was its effect on Brown?

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

5. Describe The Gray Commission Plan.

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. After Brown, how did some Southern states attempt to weaken the NAACP’s impact?

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