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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. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?
2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?
3. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?
4. Which slave did Thomas Jefferson have children with?
5. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did both planters and missionaries in early America think about slavery?
2. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?
3. Who did Thomas Jefferson and other slaveholders blame for the slave rebellions cropping up in America in the late 1700s?
4. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?
5. What, in Reynolds' and Kendi's opinions, was one of the worst things Jefferson did as he retired to Monticello?
6. What is one reason that Frederick Douglass went to Great Britain to spread his antislavery message?
7. What were Gabriel and Nancy Prosser trying to do in the year 1800?
8. What was a particularly glaring contradiction in Jefferson's attitudes and writings in 1784?
9. In Chapters 6 and 7, what word is most often used to describe Africans in racist theories, and why?
10. What is the Curse Theory as Reynolds and Kendi describe it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise, and what were the founders' reasons for including it in the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What does the phrase the "Talented Tenth" refer to, and how was this concept received by the public? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How would you explain the core of the so-called "Southern Strategy" that Richard Nixon used in his political campaign to win the presidency in the late 1960s? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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