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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 piece of legislation prohibited Black people from gathering without white supervision?
(a) The Negro Act of 1740.
(b) The Fourteenth Amendment.
(c) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
(d) The U.S. Constitution.

2. According to Tisby, how did most enslaved Blacks respond to the rise of Christian revivalist preachers in the 1700s?
(a) They considered Christianity, but chose another religion.
(b) They converted to Christianity and integrated into white churches.
(c) They rejected Christianity and refused to convert.
(d) They adopted Chrsitianity and made it their own.

3. 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.

4. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The German.
(c) The English.
(d) The Scandinavians.

5. Why was the antislavery clause removed from the Declaration of Independence?
(a) States that outlawed slavery launched a letter-writing campaign.
(b) States that profited from the slave trade objected to its inclusion.
(c) States that supported the slave trade won a Congressional vote.
(d) States that opposed the slave trade offended the Founding Fathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Constitutional Convention take place?

2. Which war allowed Britain to expand their territory in North America in the mid-1700s?

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?

4. How many enslaved people were transported from Africa during the transatlantic slave trade?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Fugitive Slave Clause?

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

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 Three-Fifths Compromise?

6. What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?

7. What evangelical Christian doctrines, outlined by Tisby in Chapter 3, can prevent these churches from taking a stance on social justice issues?

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

9. What is the monogenesis theory of humankind?

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

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