2. Who, according to a law passed by the House of Burgesses, had to give female slaves permission before they could marry?
(a) The local government.
(b) The slave-master of the premises.
(c) The federal government.
(d) Their master.

3. Whom did the Fifteenth Amendment permit the right to vote to?
(a) Black men and women.
(b) White women.
(c) Black men.
(d) Black men and white women.

4. Who from Columbia University described the late nineteenth century as a time of "rapid expansion, desperate competition and peremptory rejection of failure"?
(a) Richard Hofstadter.
(b) Stephen Strenton.
(c) Micheal Miller.
(d) Orsen Walls.

5. What novel spoke to the desire of slave women to become the mistress of their masters?
(a) "A Need for More."
(b) "Conditions of the Negro in America."
(c) "The Negro Family."
(d) "Desires of the American Slave."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was committed to Dr. S. Wier Mitchell's Hospital of Orthopedic and Nervous Diseases because of her inability to withstand the stresses of being educated and financially sound and having to care for ailing members of her family?

2. What was the name of the slave in 1741 that attempted to burn down the entire settlement of Charleston, Massachusetts?

3. What did Robert Church own, eventually being ransacked in 1866?

4. What was the name of the first Black child born in America?

5. What did the text in the chapter "Prelude to a Movement" detail that captains of industry would later be called?

(see the answer key)

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