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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Racial Zoning.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did developers try to get around Buchanan by claiming it only applied to Kentucky?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Camden, NJ.
(c) Richmond, CA.
(d) Chicago.

2. What is redlining?
(a) Refusing to offer mortgages to black families in certain areas.
(b) Charging higher interest on a managing.
(c) Placing neighborhoods next to industrial neighborhoods.
(d) Increasing the amount a family has to put down to get a mortgage.

3. What does Rothstein say the government has an obligation to provide?
(a) A fair society.
(b) Reparations.
(c) Protection for the powerless.
(d) Return to places of origin.

4. After the post-war housing shortage ended, what does Rothstein say the real estate industry lobbied for?
(a) Making sure public housing was a place of poverty and crime.
(b) Excluding black workers from skills positions.
(c) Using subsidies to remedy historic injustices in housing.
(d) Limits on black contractors.

5. When was it that the first city concentrated blacks in neighborhoods based on race?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1889.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. start building public housing?

2. What is de jure segregation?

3. What does Rothstein say the Supreme Court decided about housing and discrimination in 1883?

4. When did the massacre take place in Hamburg South Carolina that killed 50 African Americans in advance of elections?

5. What did the city of Atlanta do when the Supreme Court found its housing plans unconstitutional?

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