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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the Haitian Revolution?
(a) A rebellion of the English against the French.
(b) A rebellion of enslaved people against their owners.
(c) A rebellion of indentured servants against their employers.
(d) A rebellion of native Haitians against the English.

3. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?
(a) Charles Morgan Jr.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Billy Graham.
(d) Carolyn DuPont.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did the construction of Confederate monuments become popular?

4. According to Tisby, when did Christianity arrive in Africa?

5. Where did Emmett Till's murder occur?

(see the answer key)

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