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

2. How did the world's first racist depict Africans in his book, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) As savages that needed training.
(b) As lazy people who needed to be instilled with a better work ethic.
(c) As lost souls who could be rehabilitated.
(d) As people who were physically well-suited for work.

3. What did writer John Locke believe about Blacks?
(a) They had better physical health than Whites.
(b) They were more violent than Whites.
(c) They were better musicians than whites.
(d) They had less agile and developed minds than Whites.

4. What period of time did uplift suasion seem to be working as intended in?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1920s.
(c) The 1790s.
(d) The 1950s.

5. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?
(a) That three-fifths of the states should be free states.
(b) That African Americans should count as three-fifths of a white person.
(c) That three-fifths of the states should be slave states.
(d) That people should only get to vote in three-fifths of the toal number of elections.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Cotton Mather write?

2. What new technology did members of the AASS rely on to spread abolitionist messages in 1835?

3. When did Thomas Jefferson die?

4. Who was the head of the American Colonization Society in the early 1800s?

5. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?

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