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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1969, what percent of Prince Edward County schools were Black?
(a) 56%.
(b) 98%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 10%.

2. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?
(a) He immediately mandated implicit bias training for all officers.
(b) He swiftly arrested the police officers involved.
(c) He enacted strict anti-racist policy.
(d) He touted the excellence of the NYPD.

3. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Mississippi Chronicle.
(d) The Chicago Defender.

4. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?
(a) Not owning a home.
(b) Not being clean.
(c) Not having gainful employment.
(d) Not taking care of one’s children.

5. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1867.

Short Answer Questions

1. The objective of the White Citizens Council that sprang up throughout the South was to do what?

2. What is the Great Migration?

3. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?

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

5. Senator Garland Gray’s Plan would require Virginia to spend how much money for every 1% of private school students?

(see the answer key)

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