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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Kindling.
(b) Incitement.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Firewood.

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 enacted strict anti-racist policy.
(c) He touted the excellence of the NYPD.
(d) He swiftly arrested the police officers involved.

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

4. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?
(a) James Jameson.
(b) James Jefferson.
(c) James Garfield.
(d) James Johnson.

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

6. Which war gave Blacks the opportunity to leave the South to find work in the North?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) World War III.

7. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Bartering.
(c) Peonage.
(d) Peonies.

8. 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 well educated.
(c) They believed Blacks were going to get lost.
(d) They believed Blacks were wealthy.

9. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 100.
(c) 20.
(d) 1,000.

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

11. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?
(a) Rents increased.
(b) People moved back South.
(c) Blacks moved to Europe.
(d) Rents decreased.

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

13. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Police Officer.

14. Who created the American Colonization Society?
(a) Hank Williams.
(b) Henry Garfield.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Henry Clay.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the Black Codes?

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

4. What is the Great Migration?

5. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?

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