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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Great Migration?
(a) Exodus of Whites to Africa.
(b) Exodus of Blacks to the South.
(c) Exodus of Blacks to the North.
(d) Exodus of Blacks to Africa.

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

3. What year were the Black Codes passed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1865.
(c) 2010.
(d) 1776.

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

5. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 19th.
(c) The 16th.
(d) The 12th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?

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

3. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?

4. Who was arrested after the confrontation at Dr. Sweet’s house?

5. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the peonage system.

2. What was the 13th Amendment and when was it enacted?

3. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

4. Who is the author of White Rage? What is her background? What led her to write this book?

5. Describe the American Colonization Society. What was it? Who created it?

6. Why were some Southern whites surprised the Great Migration took place?

7. How did the increased housing demand during the Great Migration affect rents?

8. How does Anderson define "white rage”?

9. What is the book’s genre? What does that mean?

10. What were some of the ways Southern states attempted to punish Blacks for trying to move North around WWI?

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