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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: "Thomas Jefferson," Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 5 that tobacco exports in the Mid-Atlantic regions increased from 20,000 pounds in 1619 to how many by 1700?
(a) 20 million.
(b) 38 million.
(c) 15 million.
(d) 62 million.

2. Who brought the First Great Awakening to Virginia?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Samuel Davies.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Thomas Bray.

3. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

4. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?
(a) A slave ship.
(b) A painting.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) A river.

5. When was The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea written?
(a) 1469.
(b) 1498.
(c) 1426.
(d) 1453.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?

2. How much of the nation's wealth is owned by African Americans?

3. When did Virginia rule that Christian baptism does not alter "the condition of a person to his bondage" (49)?

4. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

5. What new era was emerging at the time that Thomas Jefferson was born?

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