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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?
(a) Better lawyers.
(b) Better hospitals.
(c) Better restaurants.
(d) Better schools.

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

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

4. Why did The Homestead Act not benefit Black Americans?
(a) They were not considered citizens.
(b) The did not own homes.
(c) They were not interested in owning homes.
(d) They did not need homes.

5. From where did Amadou Diallo emigrate?
(a) South Africa.
(b) North Africa.
(c) South America.
(d) West Africa.

6. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?
(a) Legal right.
(b) Sin
(c) Birth Right.
(d) Rite of passage.

7. 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.

8. What is the period of American History following the Civil War?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) World War I.
(c) Redistribution.
(d) Reallocation.

9. What year was the KKK founded?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1765.
(d) 1665.

10. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?
(a) Bronwin Michaels.
(b) Rudy Giuliani.
(c) Michael Brown.
(d) Amadou Diallo.

11. What does Anderson claim is the trigger for white rage?
(a) Black men.
(b) Black homeowners.
(c) Black rage.
(d) Black advancement.

12. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) North America.
(b) Africa.
(c) South America.
(d) Europe.

13. In 1918, The Federal Government issued what order for Blacks?
(a) Get married or fight.
(b) Teach or fight.
(c) Move or fight.
(d) Work or fight.

14. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?
(a) Obama.
(b) Lincoln.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Marshall.

15. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1919.
(c) 2019.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?

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

3. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?

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

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

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