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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Columbus view the native inhabitants of the Americas?
(a) As fellow citizens.
(b) As potential slaves.
(c) As spiritual equals.
(d) As skilled laborers.

3. Which president established the Freedman's Bureau?
(a) James Buchanan.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

4. Where did transatlantic ships carrying enslaved persons usually make port?
(a) The East Indies.
(b) The Caribbean.
(c) Eastern Canada.
(d) Western Europe.

5. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which regions received the largest number of enslaved persons?
(a) Europe and Asia.
(b) Africa and Australia.
(c) The Caribbean and South America.
(d) North and Central America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

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 most common cause of death in the Civil War?

5. What was the result of Plessy vs. Ferguson?

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