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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a side effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?
(a) Abolitionist groups received additional funding.
(b) Slave-oweners lost some of their authority over enslaved people.
(c) Black people could be captured and enslaved, even in free states.
(d) Black people were prohibited from entering free states.

2. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?
(a) He was a passionate abolitionist.
(b) He was an effective leader.
(c) He was not in favor of racial equality.
(d) He was a slave-owner.

3. What was the term for the system of laws and customs used to control Black people after the Civil War?
(a) Freedom acts.
(b) Chattel laws.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) Slave codes.

4. Which war allowed Britain to expand their territory in North America in the mid-1700s?
(a) The French and Indian War.
(b) The War of Spanish Succession.
(c) The Revolutionary War.
(d) The Anglo-Spanish War.

5. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?
(a) Historical fiction.
(b) Historical nonfiction.
(c) Biography.
(d) Historical survey.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?

2. At the Constitutional Convention, delegates allowed the question of slavery to be set aside for 20 years. What term has been used to describe this compromise?

3. Which organization decided in the 1600s that baptism would not free enslaved people?

4. What was the name of the group who fought for the rights of Black people in the Reconstruction Era?

5. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?

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