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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. Who spearheaded the First Great Awakening?
2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
3. Which of the following ideas did Jefferson promote in the late 1700s?
4. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?
5. Which of the following did writer Richard Baxter believe about slavery?
Short Essay Questions
1. What new technology did Garrison's new group, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) rely on to distribute information?
2. What was the strategy of uplift suasion?
3. What, in Reynolds' and Kendi's opinions, was one of the worst things Jefferson did as he retired to Monticello?
4. What were some of the things that White privileges allowed?
5. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe antiracists?
6. What did Cotton Mather try to convince people was the only mission of slavery?
7. Why was the 1791 slave rebellion in Haiti such a problem for White people in power in the United States?
8. What do Reynolds and Kendi suggest, somewhat facetiously, that Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?
9. Who do you think Reynolds and Kendi make a point to readers that Stamped is not a history book in the traditional sense?
10. What were Gabriel and Nancy Prosser trying to do in the year 1800?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do Reynolds and Kendi refer to Abraham Lincoln as Complicated Abe, especially as this name relates to Lincoln's policies regarding Blacks and slavery? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
How do Reynolds and Kendi characterize the organization of the 1963 March on Washington, and who do they say worked together to organize it? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How and why did White people in positions of power in the earliest days of the settling of America, like Virginia Governor William Berkeley, sow divisions between Whites, Native Americans, and Black people? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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