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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which attorney argued in favor of Brown v. Board?
(a) Thurgood Marshall.
(b) Strom Thurman.
(c) Marshal Thomas.
(d) Marshall Thurman.

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

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

4. What does HUAC stand for?
(a) House Un-American Activities Commission.
(b) House of United Academic Commission.
(c) House Un-American Academy of Colleges.
(d) House of Unilateral Academic Correspondences.

5. What newspaper is not one of the three referenced in regards to America’s view on Sputnik?
(a) Standard Times.
(b) Washington Post.
(c) The New Republic.
(d) New York Times.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?

2. What was the name of the person whose refusal to give up his/her bus seat in the 1960s sparked the civil rights movement?

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

4. What organizing founded in 1966 believed in self-defense rather than non-violence?

5. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?

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