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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which politician's rise came shortly after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Woodrow Wilson.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
(a) I have Black friends.
(b) I am the least racist person you know.
(c) I have White friends.
(d) I am not a racist, but.

4. The year Thomas Jefferson died, about how much debt did he have?
(a) $100,000.
(b) $500,000.
(c) $750,000.
(d) $1,000,000.

5. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?
(a) Missouri was admitted to the U.S. as a slave state in the North, or Union.
(b) Missouri was not admitted to the U.S. as a state at all in the early 1800s.
(c) Missouri was admitted to the South as a slave state in the early 1800s.
(d) Missouri was admitted to the South as a free state in the early 1800s.

6. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Micheline Stowe.
(c) Tom Roberts.
(d) Phillis Wheatley.

7. Who was the head of the American Colonization Society in the early 1800s?
(a) Jackson Brown.
(b) Robert Finley.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) John Madison.

8. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Lutheranism.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Protestantism.
(d) Catholicism.

9. Chapter 7 consists of one sentence that says Africans are NOT which of the following?
(a) Examples.
(b) Humans.
(c) Savages.
(d) Inspirations.

10. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
(a) That they had intentionally cast a curse on themselves.
(b) That they had accidentally cast a curse on themselves.
(c) That they were a cursed people because of God's will.
(d) That the Salem Witches had cast curses on them.

11. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?
(a) They did not like Puritanism.
(b) They did not want slaves to be able to read the Bible.
(c) They were only interested in slaves to make more money.
(d) They did not much care for religion themselves.

12. Where did Jefferson move in 1884?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) London.
(d) Rome.

13. What did the Great Compromise create?
(a) The House and the Senate in the U.S.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Supreme Court.
(d) The Electoral College.

14. Which state was Senator John C. Calhoun from?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) South Carolina.

15. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) The need to change people's minds through religion.
(b) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(c) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.
(d) They think Black people need to read more White authors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?

2. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?

3. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?

4. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?

5. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?

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