Crack Epidemic
These years portray the "crack era".
a. the 1980s
b. the 1960s
c. the early 1970s
d. the late 1950s
What is the 1980s
This type of punishment was used in the crack epidemic.
a. Deterrence
b. Restoration
c. Retribution
d. Incapacitation
What is deterrence
The type of neighborhood that crack affected essentially.
a. the wealthy
b. the middle class
c. the entire U.S.
d. the poor
Who is the poor
This is a nick name that is/was used for crack during the crack epidemic.
a. the poor man’s cocaine
b. Booger sugar
c. China White
d. Hell dust
What is the poor man’s cocaine
This era was the start of marijuana being referred to as "worsening" the African and Hispanic American community.
a. the 1950s
b. the 1860s
c. the 1890s
d. the 1920s
What is the 1920s
The ethnic community that was vastly affected by the crack epidemic.
a. the Asian-American
b. the Italian-American community
c. the Korean-American community
d. the African-American community
Who was the African-American community
This act helped towards the equality for punishment between crack v cocaine.
a. Equal Sentencing Act
b. Fair Sentencing Act
c. Crack Sentencing Act
d. Crack v Cocaine Sentencing Act
What is the Fair Sentencing Act
This type of job was held by African-American when crack came into the U.S., it brought a structural change to relocate and move this type of job into a more rural areas.
a. Industrial
b. Mechanic
c. Barber
d. House maid
What is an industrial job
The name of the drug Don that distributed most of the crack into U.S. during the crack epidemic.
a. El Chapo
b. Amado Carrillo Fuentes
c. Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
d. Arturo Beltrán Leyva
Who is Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
The government thought use of marijuana would bring this type of music from African-American culture.
a. Satanic music
b. Blues
c. Jazz
d. Music that no one could understand
What is Satanic music
This is the way that the government believed was the most efficient way to "clean up" the crack epidemic?.
a. Incarceration
b. Killing them
c. Rehabilitation
d. Verifying every import and obtaining the drug
What is incarceration
This sentencing punishment was established from the crack epidemic.
a. Death penalty
b. 3 strikes law
c. Mandatory minimums
d. Sentencing Reform Act
What is mandatory minimums
This is the type of provision that crack developed into for some African-Americans.
a. Disease
b. Money
c. Strength
d. Scapegoat from troubles
What is money
The country from South American that was importing the most cocaine into the United States.
a. Mexico
b. Brazil
c. Peru
d. Colombia
What is Colombia
It is this many times that African-Americans are more likely to be arrested from marijuana in states that have either legal, medical and decriminalized, medical or decriminalized marijuana.
a. 68 times
b. 93 times
c. 10 times
d. 72 times
What is 10 times
The federal government that presented a significant role in the crack epidemic.
a. the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
b. the Drug Enforcement Agency
c. the Office of Narcotics Intelligence
d. the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (Drug Unit Program)
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
In 1986, the Congress passed this act, that helped strengthen federal efforts to stop drug trafficking, to enhance federal drug laws, and promote drug abuse prevention.
a. Determination of Drugs Act
b. Drug Prevention and Awareness Act (DPAA)
c. Make America Great Again Act
d. Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
What is the Anti-Drug Abuse Act
The percentage of African-Americans that were in someway involved in crack.
a. 80%
b. 32%
c. 65%
d. 56%
What is 80%
This is the mandatory minimum number of years an individual would have to serve if they were seized with 500 grams of cocaine. (An individual would spend a minimum of 5 years if they were caught with 5 grams of crack)
a. 20 years
b. 5 years
c. 500 years (life without parole)
d. 500 days
What is 5 years
In the early 20th century, the government believed that marijuana would affect an African American male in this way.
a. allowing African-American males to be able to seduce white women
b. allowing African-American males to be more athletic than other races
c. allowing African-American males to have more strength
d. allowing African-American males to diminish their thoughts, so the would believe that they are equal to a white male
What is allowing African-American males to be able to seduce white women
The conservative, President of the U.S. began the war on drugs.
a. Gerald Ford (1974-1977)
b. Ronald Regan (1981-1989)
c. Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
d. Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
Who is Richard Nixon
In 2010, Obama was able to pass the Fair Sentencing Act, which changed the punishment between crack v cocaine from 100:1 to this new ratio.
a. 2:1
b. 18:1
c. 64:1
d. 43:1
What is 18:1
The increase of supply and demand brought this group of people to be come more competitive.
a. Athletes
b. Drug dealers
c. Wall street individuals
d. Small/ Large business owners
Who are drug dealers
Daily Double: The grammy winning, rapper, songwriter and record producer, Kendrick Lamar, talks about the crack epidemic in this song.
a. A.D.H.D.
b. the Recipe
c. The Art of Peer Pressure
d. Crack
What is ADHD
The government and white society, believed that the use of marijuana from an African-American male brought this forbidden promotion to their thoughts. Which would bring death or some form of punishment towards an African-American.
a. the promotion of having a valuable impact into society
b. the promotion of interracial mixing and/or interracial relationships
c. the promotion of natural reasoning towards African-American individuals, in the court of law
d. the promotion of being relevant
What is the promotion of interracial mixing and/or interracial relationships