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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year were the Black Codes passed?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1965.
(d) 2010.

2. After Diallo’s murder, what did Mayor Giuliani say the community’s real issue was?
(a) Racism against police.
(b) Bad attitude toward police.
(c) Policies against police.
(d) Violence against police.

3. What percent of African Americans were in the Union army?
(a) 80.
(b) 65.
(c) 23.
(d) 10.

4. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Parmalee v. Morris.
(c) Sweet v. Department of Housing.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

5. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?
(a) 20.
(b) 100.
(c) 20,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the Black Codes?

2. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?

3. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?

4. When did race riots occur in the North?

5. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?

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