The 1619 Project - Chapter 10 Quiz

What does Bryan Stevenson say about the United States' incarceration rate?

Question Answer Choices The United States incarcerates fewer people than any other developed nation The United States has the lowest incarceration rate in the world The United States has an average incarceration rate compared to other nations The United States incarcerates more people than any nation on earth

What did the Thirteenth Amendment end, with a significant exception?

Question Answer Choices Segregation Voting restrictions Slavery Jim Crow laws

What system effectively reinstituted slavery by hiring out incarcerated Black people for cheap labor?

Question Answer Choices Tenant farming Sharecropping Convict leasing Indentured servitude

In what state were sixty-two prisoners serving life sentences for non-homicide crimes?

Question Answer Choices Alabama Louisiana Texas Georgia

What percentage of prisoners serving life sentences for non-homicide crimes in Louisiana were Black?

Question Answer Choices Fifty percent Almost ninety percent Seventy-five percent Eighty percent

What stereotype was created by targeting Black people and making everything they did into a crime?

Question Answer Choices Black people as inherently violent Black people as inherently criminal Black people as inherently untrustworthy Black people as inherently lazy

What historical event is the focus of the poem 'Race Riot' by Forrest Hamer?

Question Answer Choices The Selma marches The Watts riots The Tulsa massacre The Wilmington, North Carolina, coup

What organization does Bryan Stevenson discuss in Chapter 10 of 'The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story'?

Question Answer Choices American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Black Lives Matter (BLM) Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

What event does Jasmine Mans's poem 'Greenwood' describe?

Question Answer Choices The Harlem Renaissance The destruction of Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood The Wilmington coup The Montgomery bus boycott

What loophole did the Thirteenth Amendment create that affected Black people?

Question Answer Choices Freed slaves could not own property Involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime Segregation in public places Right to vote for all men