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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 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is referred to in Chapter 11 as "That rare segregationist who rejected polygenesis," believing "that all humans descended from Europe's Garden of Eden" (138)?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Thomas Bray.
(d) Moses Brown.

3. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?
(a) March 6, 1857.
(b) July 21, 1861.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) April 15, 1861.

4. In the Declaration of Causes issued by Florida's secessionists, they maintained that Blacks must be enslaved because everywhere "their natural tendency" was toward what (214)?
(a) "Idleness, vagrancy, and crime."
(b) "Thievery and abuse."
(c) "Rebellion and resistance."
(d) "Rape and sexuality."

5. 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 Liberator.
(b) The Gazette.
(c) The Shadow.
(d) The Pulse.

Short Answer Questions

1. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

2. Who killed Michael Brown?

3. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

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

5. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?

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