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

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

3. How does Tisby perceive racism?
(a) As a social construct.
(b) As an inevitability.
(c) As a historical myth.
(d) As a mystery.

4. 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 Missouri compromise.
(c) The Philadelphia compromise.
(d) The three-fifths compromise.

5. Which revivalist preacher used profits from slave labor to build an orphanage?
(a) Jonathan Edwards.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Solomon Stoddard.
(d) Richard Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first Black preacher ordained in America?

2. Which piece of legislation prohibited Black people from gathering without white supervision?

3. According to Tisby, how did most enslaved Blacks respond to the rise of Christian revivalist preachers in the 1700s?

4. Which enslaved person wrote an autobiography chronicling his experiences in the Middle Passage?

5. Which English philosopher's work influenced the Declaration of Independence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Many white Christians believe that individual conversation and a spiritual awakening will naturally lead to racial equality. What is Tisby's perspective?

3. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

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

5. What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

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

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

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

9. Why did some white Christians hesitate to baptize enslaved people?

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

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