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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: "William Lloyd Garrison," Chapters 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did John Cotton draft the first constitution of New England?
(a) 1636.
(b) 1632.
(c) 1695.
(d) 1674.

2. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?
(a) Pope Leo X.
(b) Cotton Mather.
(c) George Fox.
(d) King George.

3. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?
(a) The Immigration Act.
(b) The Emancipation Act.
(c) The Naturalization Act.
(d) The Confiscation Act.

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, who became associated to associating "lightness and Whiteness and reason, on the one hand and ... darkness and Blackness and ignorance, on the other" (81)?
(a) Carl Linnaeus.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

5. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln raise the Union Army to put down the "insurrection" during the secession (215)?

3. Who made his revelation in a 1680 pamphlet criticizing racist planters for making "those two words, Negro and Slave" synonymous (51)?

4. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?

5. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?

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