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

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

3. What does NDEA stand for?
(a) National Defense of Education Act.
(b) Natural Disaster Efforts Association.
(c) National Defense of Educational Autonomy.
(d) National Distribution of Education Allocation.

4. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?
(a) Legislators, laborers, journalists.
(b) Government Officials, legislators, and plantation owners.
(c) Government officials, legislators and police officers.
(d) Plantation Owners, legislators, the media.

5. In 1963, how many Black children attended public schools with white children in SC, AL, and MI?
(a) 150.
(b) 28.
(c) 10.
(d) 0.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did James Madison call America’s “original sin”?

2. After Diallo’s murder, what did Mayor Giuliani say the community’s real issue was?

3. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?

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

5. What 1986 Act passed by Congress enacted mandatory sentencing in for drug offenses?

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