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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Tisby, during which period of American history did race NOT determine a person's station in society?
(a) 1800-1900.
(b) 1900-2000.
(c) 1500-1700.
(d) 1600-1800.

2. How many people perished during the Middle Passage?
(a) About 2 million.
(b) About 750,000.
(c) About 500,000.
(d) About 1 million.

3. What punishment was imposed on free citizens who failed to assist the authorities in capturing a runaway slave?
(a) They were stripped of U.S. citizenship.
(b) They were fined $1,000.
(c) They were imprisoned.
(d) They were executed.

4. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) D.W. Griffith.
(c) Thomas Dixon Jr.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

5. What statement is NOT true of Charles Grandison Finney?
(a) He was an outspoken abolitionist.
(b) He allowed Black people to join his church.
(c) He advocated for Black emancipation.
(d) He supported racial desegregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tisby categorize his book, The Color of Compromise?

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

3. How did Columbus view the native inhabitants of the Americas?

4. What led to the split of the Methodist Episcopal Church?

5. When were the Articles of Confederation ratified?

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