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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 24-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?
(a) The Gazette.
(b) The Pulse.
(c) The Shadow.
(d) The Liberator.

2. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Alabama.

3. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 38 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 62 million.

4. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Robert Abbott.

5. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?
(a) An African slave uprising.
(b) A Presidential order.
(c) Slave-holding Quakers.
(d) Slave-holding Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?

2. When did Nat Turner organize and execture one of the country's most notorious slave rebellions?

3. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?

4. With what co-founder of the NAACP did W. E. B. Du Bois butt heads?

5. On what date did both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die?

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