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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Supreme Court handed down two rulings requiring schools to reopen, what method of keeping schools segregated was employed?
(a) The Freedmen’s Bureau.
(b) Freedom of Choice Plan.
(c) Education Equity Plan.
(d) Freedom of Education Act.

2. What did James Madison call America’s “original sin”?
(a) Chattel slavery.
(b) World War I.
(c) Jim Crow.
(d) Segregation.

3. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?
(a) They believed Blacks were wealthy.
(b) They believed Blacks were going to get lost.
(c) They believed Blacks were well educated.
(d) They believed Blacks were satisfied with their lives.

4. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?
(a) The Frederick Douglass Decision.
(b) The Ossian Sweet Decision.
(c) The Dred Scott Decision.
(d) The Simon Johnson Decision.

5. When the Fourth Circuit Ruled that schools must integrate by 1959, county supervisors did what to divert money from public schools?
(a) Reduced income tax.
(b) Abolished the property tax.
(c) Increased income tax.
(d) Increased property tax.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which states’ determination to uphold American slavery led to the Civil War?

2. In an effort to prevent school integration, The Texas Council proposed a Constitutional Amendment that would require whom to answer to Congress?

3. Which Alabama Governor received a congratulatory telegram after blocking a Black student’s acceptance to a Tuscaloosa University?

4. Some argued that Brown stemmed from what type of manipulation?

5. Who is the author of the book White Rage?

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