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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?
(a) Richard Hakluyt.
(b) Morgan Godwyn.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) Georges Cuvier.

2. Who invented the mechanical cotton gin?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Eli Whitney.

3. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?
(a) June, 1879.
(b) July, 1848.
(c) March, 1840.
(d) March, 1842.

4. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?
(a) Dylann Roof.
(b) Darren Wilson.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Dante Servin.

5. Who wrote Essay on Universal History in 1756?
(a) Morgan Godwyn.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Voltaire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?

3. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?

4. The free Black population in Virginia went from 1,800 in 1782 to what number in 1810?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Voltaire's significance in racial history?

2. How did Western Europ gain access to goods from Africa?

3. What were the impacts of Bacon's Rebellion?

4. What events led to the development of the #Black Lives Matter movement? What impact has the movement had?

5. What is uplift suasion?

6. What was dictated in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

7. How did the invention of the cotton gin impact slavery?

8. Why were slave-owners reluctant to baptize their slaves in the 1600s?

9. What impact did mistrel shows have on racist perceptions?

10. What conclusions does the author make regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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