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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Chapters 6 - 12).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?
(a) No singing.
(b) No interracial relationships.
(c) No writing.
(d) No reading.

2. When did Cotton Mather die?
(a) 1728.
(b) 1790.
(c) 1787.
(d) 1750.

3. Why were White Privileges created?
(a) To help create the stock market.
(b) To keep poor Whites and Blacks from uniting and turning against the Whites in power.
(c) To help poor Whites and rich Whites have a more equal level of opportunity.
(d) To help commerce grow in the new world.

4. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?
(a) Freedmont.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Boston.
(d) Monticello.

5. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?
(a) That if Blacks embraced their own culture, they had a better chance of being acceptance.
(b) That if Blacks pretended to not be able to read, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(c) That if Blacks became business owners themselves, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(d) That if Blacks behaved admirably - which meant like White people - they had a greater chance of gaining acceptance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spearheaded the First Great Awakening?

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

3. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

4. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?

5. The year Thomas Jefferson died, about how much debt did he have?

(see the answer key)

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