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

2. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?
(a) 4.
(b) 41.
(c) 2.
(d) 29.

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

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 Johnson.
(c) James Jefferson.
(d) James Garfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was not one of the things that Blacks be arrested for under the Black Codes?

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

3. Who created the American Colonization Society?

4. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was President after Lincoln’s assasination? In what ways did he attempt to return to slavery?

2. Who was President when the 13th Amendment was enacted? What were his views on Black Americans at that time?

3. How does Anderson define "white rage”?

4. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

5. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? When and why was it created?

6. What was the Great Migration? Why did it happen?

7. Who was Mayor of NYC when Amadou Diallo was shot by police? How did he react to it?

8. During the time of The Great Migration, a newspaper was the major source of information that could impact what one believed. What would you say is a major source of information today? Is this a reliable source? What are some better ways to find reliable news?

9. What were the Black Codes?

10. What was the Homestead Act and why did it not benefit African Americans?

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