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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?
(a) That if Blacks became business owners themselves, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(b) That if Blacks pretended to not be able to read, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(c) That if Blacks embraced their own culture, they had a better chance of being acceptance.
(d) That if Blacks behaved admirably - which meant like White people - they had a greater chance of gaining acceptance.

2. Which of the following rules did slave owners have to help keep slaves from rising up?
(a) No singing.
(b) No writing.
(c) No interracial relationships.
(d) No reading.

3. Which other former president died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) John Adams.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) George Washington.

4. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
(a) Greek and Latin texts could not be disputed.
(b) Women were allowed to attend, but only in small numbers.
(c) All the professors had to be priests.
(d) Blacks were allowed to attend as long as they worked at the university, too.

5. Who was the head of the American Colonization Society in the early 1800s?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) Jackson Brown.
(c) Robert Finley.
(d) John Madison.

6. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
(a) I am not a racist, but.
(b) I have Black friends.
(c) I am the least racist person you know.
(d) I have White friends.

7. What group was William Lloyd Garrison instrumental in creating in the end of Chapter 11?
(a) The PABT.
(b) The SNCC.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) The American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS).

8. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?
(a) A History of Slavery in the United States.
(b) A Fine Example of Friendship.
(c) A Rumination on Benefits.
(d) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.

9. What new technology did members of the AASS rely on to spread abolitionist messages in 1835?
(a) The telephone.
(b) The telegram.
(c) The printing press.
(d) The typewriter.

10. What club did Benjamin Franklin begin in 1743?
(a) The Benjamin Society.
(b) The Colonial Society.
(c) The Benjamin Club.
(d) The American Philosophical Society.

11. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?
(a) The Western Territory.
(b) The Louisiana Territory.
(c) The New England Territory.
(d) The Glacier Territory.

12. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?
(a) Maine.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Massachusetts.

13. Why were White Privileges created?
(a) To help commerce grow in the new world.
(b) To help create the stock market.
(c) To help poor Whites and rich Whites have a more equal level of opportunity.
(d) To keep poor Whites and Blacks from uniting and turning against the Whites in power.

14. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?
(a) They were only interested in slaves to make more money.
(b) They did not want slaves to be able to read the Bible.
(c) They did not much care for religion themselves.
(d) They did not like Puritanism.

15. Where did Thomas Jefferson build his first plantation?
(a) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(b) Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Charlottesville, Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did writer John Locke believe about Blacks?

2. When did Cotton Mather die?

3. What does Kendi say is the first step to building an antiracist America?

4. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?

5. What did the Great Compromise create?

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