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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 does Jim Crow refer to?
(a) Anti-racist laws.
(b) The head of the NAACP.
(c) Separate but equal laws.
(d) Equal Education Laws.

2. In 1970, what act was renewed for another five years?
(a) The Freedom Act.
(b) The Equality Opportunity Act.
(c) The Voting Rights Act.
(d) The Civil Rights Act.

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

4. Which tax supports public school education?
(a) Excise.
(b) Education.
(c) Income.
(d) Property.

5. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
(a) 28.
(b) 10.
(c) 0.
(d) 150.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?

2. What is the name of the satellite the Soviets launched in 1957?

3. In Delaware in the 1930’s, Black Americans completed how many years of schooling on average?

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

5. What “top secret” report “detailed America’s descent into a second-class power”?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What was the civil rights movement?

5. Describe the ways in which the Reagan administration continued to roll back civil rights, according to Anderson. What examples does Anderson use in regards to education?

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

7. What events led to the Civil Rights Act?

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

9. When did Brown v. Board of Education pass? What did it declare? What prominent attorney backed this legislation and why?

10. In what ways does Anderson say the new drug laws under Reagan disproportionately impact African Americans?

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