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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the Constitutional Convention, delegates allowed the question of slavery to be set aside for 20 years. What term has been used to describe this compromise?
(a) The three-fifths compromise.
(b) The Philadelphia compromise.
(c) The dirty compromise.
(d) The Missouri compromise.

2. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?
(a) Reclamation.
(b) Absolution.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Vindication.

3. Which enslaved person wrote an autobiography chronicling his experiences in the Middle Passage?
(a) Crispus Attucks.
(b) Richard Allen.
(c) Lemuel Haynes.
(d) Olaudah Equiano.

4. According to James Henley Thornwell, "The church can merely assert what the bible teaches, and must remain silent on that which the bible is silent" (85). What is the name of this doctrine?
(a) The serendipity of the church.
(b) The infallibility of the church.
(c) The of impartiality the church.
(d) The spirituality of the church.

5. According to Tisby, which of the following statements about Thomas Jefferson is NOT true?
(a) He drafted the Declaration of Independence.
(b) He opposed racial equality.
(c) He was an abolitionist.
(d) He was a slave-owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing occur?

2. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?

3. What year were was the Gardener Springs Resolutions introduced?

4. Who were the first Europeans to reach the Americas?

5. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?

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