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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Benjamin Franklin die?

2. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?

3. When did Napoleon renounce Louisiana?

4. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?

5. When did Pedro de Las Casas publish History of the Indes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led the Spanish colonists after Columbus to turn to Africa for slave labor?

2. What is polygenism? How did it promote racism?

3. What influence did Aristotle have on the views of the Puritans regarding slavery?

4. What conclusions does the author make regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. What discovery did Cotton Mather make during the smallpox outbreak of 1721?

6. What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 dictate?

7. Who are the five main figures that are the book's "tour guides" (6)? Why has the author chosen these individuals?

8. What is uplift suasion?

9. What does the term "extraordinary Negro" refer to?

10. What was dictated in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the contemporary climate of racism in America and how this climate inspired Ibram X. Kendi's writing of Stamped from the Beginning. What examples of police shootings, trials, and activist movements does Kendi describe in the Prologue? In what ways have these events shaped contemporary society?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and the impressions of Phillis Wheatley. When and where was Wheatley born and raised? What made Wheatley stand out as a slave? In what ways was her uniqueness exploited and why?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the life, career, and works of Angela Davis. When and where was Davis born? How did this setting influence Davis's later life and career? What were the inciting moments that motivated Davis as an activist?

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