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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, which regions received the largest number of enslaved persons?
(a) North and Central America.
(b) The Caribbean and South America.
(c) Europe and Asia.
(d) Africa and Australia.

2. In the 1800s, the global demand for which product helped fuel the north American slave trade?
(a) Cotton.
(b) Wool.
(c) Steel.
(d) Oil.

3. Following the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, a white lawyer claimed that all white Christians bore some responsibility. What was this lawyer's name?
(a) Charles Morgan Jr.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Billy Graham.
(d) Carolyn DuPont.

4. When were the Articles of Confederation ratified?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1780.
(d) 1782.

5. What was the first higher education institution to accept women and Black people?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) St. John's College.
(c) Oberlin College.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the Haitian Revolution take place?

2. According to Tisby, what is required to achieve "reconciliation" (15)?

3. According to Tisby, how did most enslaved Blacks respond to the rise of Christian revivalist preachers in the 1700s?

4. According to slave codes, what determined whether a child was born free or enslaved?

5. What was the term used for the religious movement that emphasized a personal encounter with God?

Short Essay Questions

1. Concerning slavery, what was meant by the term "natural increase" (33)?

2. Why did some white Christians hesitate to baptize enslaved people?

3. What was the impact of the Missouri Compromise?

4. Many white Christians believe that individual conversation and a spiritual awakening will naturally lead to racial equality. What is Tisby's perspective?

5. What was the impact of Nat Turner's rebellion?

6. Which demographic groups benefitted most from the original Constitution?

7. Why did some slaveowners prefer to enslave Africans rather than Native Americans, as explained by Tisby?

8. Why did Johnathan Edwards oppose the African slave-trade?

9. What decisions were made at the Baptist General Committee of Virginia in 1790?

10. Why did the Episcopalian diocese originally refuse to admit St. Philip's church?

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