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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. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?
(a) 1702.
(b) 1667.
(c) 1640.
(d) 1698.

2. With what slave did Thomas Jefferson have an affair?
(a) Mary Stephens.
(b) Annie Ross.
(c) Sally Hemings.
(d) Anna Lace.

3. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?
(a) The Christian Guide to Slavery Ownership.
(b) Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes.
(c) A Humanist Perspective on American Slavery.
(d) The Primitive Mind.

4. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?
(a) The Segregation Act.
(b) The Confiscation Act.
(c) The Emancipation Act.
(d) The Naturalization Act.

5. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Segregationists.
(b) Abolitionists.
(c) Antiracists.
(d) Assimilationists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Nat Turner's slave rebellion take place?

2. Who wrote The Principal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation?

3. When was the American Anti-Slavery Society formed?

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

5. When was Cotton Mather born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is climate theory?

2. Who was Phillis Wheatly and why is she important in American history?

3. Discuss the ironies of the Declaration of Independence.

4. What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 dictate?

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

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

7. What is polygenism? How did it promote racism?

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

9. Why is Leo Africanus notable historically?

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

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