1. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?
(a) The Boston Philosophical Society.
(b) The Society for Western Enlightenment.
(c) The Society for Abolition.
(d) The Society for Free Speech.

2. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Fisk University.

3. What fort were the Portuguese beginning building in 1481?
(a) Ceuta.
(b) Elmina.
(c) Alitta.
(d) Atenia.

4. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Hendrik Cesars.
(c) Benjamin Lundy.
(d) Frances Maria Lloyd.

5. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?
(a) June 25, 1890.
(b) January 7, 1890.
(c) April 15, 1861.
(d) February 23, 1868.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?

3. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?

4. Who was impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?

5. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?

(see the answer key)

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