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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. When was Sandra Bland found hanged in her jail cell?

2. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?

3. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?

4. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?

5. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is uplift suasion?

3. Why is it important to the author that the reader know this book is not a history of racial progress?

4. Why is Leo Africanus notable historically?

5. When and where did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place? What were its impacts?

6. What led the Spanish colonists after Columbus to turn to Africa for slave labor?

7. When did the Haitian Revolution take place and what was the outcome of the revolution?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss legislation and social perspectives on interracial marriage and partnerships in America throughout history. When were laws first enacted that prohibited interracial marriage? How was rape by slave owners different, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of Carl Linnaeus's classification of humans into four separate species. How did this promote racist thought? What further hierarchies were then developed? What did they imply?

Essay Topic 3

Describe climate theory in regards to race. When did this theory emerge? Where and from whom did it emerge? How was climate theory used to justify racism?

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