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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?

3. Who was William Lloyd Garrison's mother?

4. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

5. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the three sides of the racial debate, according to the author.

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

3. What is uplift suasion?

4. What is climate theory?

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

6. What is Carl Linnaeus's significance in racial history?

7. What is monogenism?

8. What racist stereotypes were reinforced by "An Essay Concering Humane Understanding"?

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

10. What influence did Aristotle have on the views of the Puritans regarding slavery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the views on slavery and its practices in the Medieval ages in Europe and Africa. What were Muslim views on slavery? What influenced these views? When were the first African slaves brought to Europe?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the colonization movement during and following the American Civil War. Who led the thought on re-colonizing Blacks back to Africa? How widespread was support of this idea? How did Blacks themselves feel about colonization?

Essay Topic 3

What were the impacts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What backlash came with the act? How did the act influence the Black vote? What powers were given to enforce the act?

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