13th–Ava Duvernay (Part 1)

Question 1

A "war on drugs" utterance dealt with drug addiction as a ____ rather than a health issue

Accepted Answer

black issue, crime issue

Question 2

“...the Nixon White house...had two enemies: the antiwar left an _____." -John Ehrlichman

Accepted Answer

black people

Question 3

In many ways, the so called “war on drugs” was a war on ______.

Accepted Answer

communities of color

Question 4

Which sitting president held a private screening of ‘Birth of a Nation’ at the White House?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 5

Vagrancy laws made it a crime for a person to wander from place to place ________ .

Accepted Answer

without visible means of support

Question 6

If we are black in the U.S., we are products of the history that ______________________.

Accepted Answer

our ancestors most likely did not choose.

Question 7

President Nixon was the first to coin, “A War on Drugs. ____ turned that into a literal one.

Accepted Answer

President Ronald Reagan

Question 8

The same amount of time in prison for ___ that you would get for 100 ounces of powder cocaine.

Accepted Answer

one ounce of crack cocaine

Question 9

Slavery was a ________ system.

Accepted Answer

economic

Question 10

The United States is home to 5% of the world’s population, but __% of the world’s prisoners

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 11

Following the __________, Blacks were arrested/imprisoned in mass for extremely minor crimes

Accepted Answer

Civil War

Question 12

The 13th amendment makes it unconstitutional to be held as a slave. What is the exception?

Accepted Answer

Those who are referred to as "criminals"

Question 13

The United States now have the highest rate of incarceration in the world

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Reagan used his wife in the _____ campaign to define "the war on drugs" as a problem.

Accepted Answer

Just say ‘No'

Question 15

Congress established far harsher mandatory sentencing penalties for ____ than powder cocaine

Accepted Answer

crack

Question 16

The U.S. prison population in 1980 was 513,900. The U.S. prison population in 1985:

Accepted Answer

759,100

Question 17

In the 1970s, we began an era which has been defined as this term ______ .

Accepted Answer

Mass Incarceration

Question 18

The rhetoric of _______ was part of the backlash of the civil rights movement

Accepted Answer

“get tough” and “law and order”

Question 19

The 1915 film ‘Birth of a Nation’ widely heralded as a catalyst for the rebirth of the ______.

Accepted Answer

Klu Klux Klan

Question 20

The prison population in the U.S. was flat throughout the 20th century. But that changed ___.

Accepted Answer

in the 1970s.

Question 21

The U.S. prison population in 1970 was just above 327,000. Its current pop. is over __ million

Accepted Answer

2

Question 22

Depicting an African American as criminal was deliberate on the part of _____ campaign.

Accepted Answer

President's Bush

Questions 22