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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison often use as an antiracist sounding board?
(a) The Harlot.
(b) The Crisis.
(c) The Gentry.
(d) The Liberator.

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

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

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

5. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?
(a) Handbook for Future Revolutionaries.
(b) Independence Days.
(c) The Real History of Paul Revere's Ride.
(d) Notes on the State of Virginia.

6. Who held the theory that Blacks descended from a "Different Adam" than Whites?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Lucilio Vanini.
(c) John Locke.
(d) Marshall Mathers.

7. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?
(a) The Santiago de Caligula.
(b) The Mariachi Marina.
(c) The San Juan Bautista.
(d) The Santa Maria Domingo.

8. What kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?
(a) A history book.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Propaganda.

9. Who spearheaded the First Great Awakening?
(a) Cotton Jenson.
(b) John Kenyans.
(c) Richard Mather.
(d) Jonathan Edwards.

10. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).
(b) The PABT.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The SNCC.

11. What new technology did members of the AASS rely on to spread abolitionist messages in 1835?
(a) The printing press.
(b) The telephone.
(c) The telegram.
(d) The typewriter.

12. What did the Climate Theory say about Africans?
(a) They would only be able to work in places with similar climates to where they grew up.
(b) They were savages because of the hot weather where they came from.
(c) They were redeemable because of the churches in their homelands.
(d) They were savages because of the cold climate they came from.

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

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

15. When did Thomas Jefferson die?
(a) July 2, 1850.
(b) May 8, 1843.
(c) July 4, 1890.
(d) July 4, 1826.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?

2. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?

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

4. What was the book that the world's first racist wrote titled, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

5. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?

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