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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 and Afterword .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anderson claim is the trigger for white rage?
(a) Black rage.
(b) Black advancement.
(c) Black homeowners.
(d) Black men.

2. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?
(a) Helping the newly freed find jobs.
(b) Reallocating abandoned southern land to newly freed people.
(c) Moving newly freedmen North.
(d) Giving furniture to the recently emancipated.

3. According to Anderson, quality education can do what for people?
(a) Improve housing conditions.
(b) Improve health outcomes, break the cycle of poverty, and improve housing conditions.
(c) Improve health outcomes.
(d) Break the cycle of poverty.

4. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?
(a) Better restaurants.
(b) Better lawyers.
(c) Better hospitals.
(d) Better schools.

5. Who became the first Black president in 2008?
(a) Joe Biden.
(b) Barack Obama.
(c) Malcom X.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was not one of the things that Blacks be arrested for under the Black Codes?

2. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?

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

4. Though Representative Elliot believed the U.S. had to work toward better education, he did not believe in what?

5. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?

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