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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were the Articles of Confederation ratified?
(a) 1782.
(b) 1780.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1779.

2. What was the name of the Black writer who published an autobiography in 1861, detailing her experiences as a enslaved girl?
(a) Harriet Jacobs.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Hannah Crafts.
(d) Soujourner Truth.

3. According to Tisby's statistical evidence, which modern American demographic is most likely to be religious?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Hispanics.
(c) Asians.
(d) Whites.

4. What religious beliefs did enslaved Blacks hold upon their arrival in North America?
(a) They were primarily Jewish and Islamic.
(b) They had already converted to the Christian faith.
(c) They had no religious beliefs of their own.
(d) They practiced indigenous religions native to Africa.

5. 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?
(a) The dirty compromise.
(b) The three-fifths compromise.
(c) The Philadelphia compromise.
(d) The Missouri compromise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?

2. Which activist claimed that, "There can be no deep disappointment without deep love" (19)?

3. Which white man married Metoaka, also known as Pocahontas?

4. What historical period coincided with the decline of slavery in Britain?

5. What statement is NOT true of Charles Grandison Finney?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the concept of "hereditary heathenism," outlined by Tisby in Chapter 2?

2. Which demographic groups benefitted most from the original Constitution?

3. What decisions were made at the Baptist General Committee of Virginia in 1790?

4. In Chapter 4, Tisby outlines arguments that white Christians used to justify slave-ownership. What are some of these arguments?

5. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

6. Concerning slavery, what was meant by the term "natural increase" (33)?

7. What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

8. Why did Johnathan Edwards oppose the African slave-trade?

9. Why did some slaveowners prefer to enslave Africans rather than Native Americans, as explained by Tisby?

10. What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

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