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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Local Tactics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the laws that limited blacks’ freedoms called in the South?
(a) Reign of Terror.
(b) Racially restrictive covenants.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Apartheid.

2. What program does Rothstein say was integral to Houston’s segregation plans?
(a) School construction.
(b) Section 8 program.
(c) Mortgage subsidy program.
(d) Highway construction.

3. What does Rothstein says the U.S. Housing Authority’s (USHA) stated goal was?
(a) Segregating communities.
(b) Preserving communities.
(c) Relocating communities.
(d) Integrating communities.

4. Where was the idea of the homeowners’ association first put into practice?
(a) Kansas City.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Camden, NJ.
(d) Chicago.

5. What was the condition that led the FHA to finally back the UAW’s development in Milpitas?
(a) The development would include only wealthy families.
(b) The development would be a co-op.
(c) The development would be integrated, but races would be separated by a stream.
(d) The development would be segregated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harland Bartholomew do as planning engineer for St. Louis, MO?

2. What makes Rothstein say that real estate agents engaged in blockbusting were engaging in de jure segregation?

3. Where did Leroy Mereday make a career for himself?

4. When would a black family acquire equity in the house it bought, under the kinds of sales blockbusters typically used?

5. What else was covered beside who could buy a house in a racially restrictive covenant?

(see the answer key)

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