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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. Which Spanish ship carrying slaves was hijacked in 1619?

2. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?

3. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

4. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?

5. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who do you think Reynolds and Kendi make a point to readers that Stamped is not a history book in the traditional sense?

2. What was a particularly glaring contradiction in Jefferson's attitudes and writings in 1784?

3. What is one of the situations that Reynolds and Kendi view as ironic about Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence?

4. What is one reason that Frederick Douglass went to Great Britain to spread his antislavery message?

5. How did both planters and missionaries in early America think about slavery?

6. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe segregationists?

7. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe the intentions and temperament of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison?

8. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?

9. Who did Thomas Jefferson and other slaveholders blame for the slave rebellions cropping up in America in the late 1700s?

10. How did early Puritans like Cotton and Mather perpetuate their racist ideas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of criticism and negative consequences did Angela Davis experience from people at the highest level of political power as a result of her activism? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What does the phrase the "Talented Tenth" refer to, and how was this concept received by the public? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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