African American History Test 6
The northern antislavery movement began in the __________ among white Quakers living in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
1730s
In the aftermath of the Civil War, which of the following was the primary target of the wave of violence unleashed by white southerners?
African Americans
__________ helped organize an antislavery society in New York.
Alexander Hamilton
The United States acquired __________ as a result of the Mexican-American War.
California
Most slaves sold in the domestic slave trade were from the __________.
Chesapeake
In the first half of the nineteenth century, __________ was one of the few northern cities that did not show patterns of residential segregation.
Cleveland
Which of the following was true of churches in the pre-Civil War South?
Correct Many had biracial congregations.
Which of the following helps explain why agricultural technology was relatively primitive in the Cotton Kingdom?
Correct Southerners preferred to invest in slaves rather than in machines.
The American antislavery movement was shaped by the struggle for independence in __________.
Haiti
How did William Lloyd Garrison change the nature of the antislavery movement?
He called for a commitment to racial justice.
What was Denmark Vesey's fate?
He was hanged
Which of the following best characterizes Frederick Douglass's break with the American Anti-Slavery Society?
It abolished slavery in 1829
How did the Emancipation Proclamation undermine the Confederate war effort?
It encouraged slaves to run away and resist their masters
David Walker and Nat Turner differed in that __________.
Turner was born a slave
Revivalists like Charles G. Finney preached that __________.
all people's souls could be saved.
The Militia Act of 1862 __________.
authorized Lincoln to enlist African Americans
Black churches were _________
often used as schools
The sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings began when he was 44 and she was __________.
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Antiblack and antiabolitionist violence reached its peak in the __________.
1830s
Why did property qualifications for voting disproportionately affect African Americans?
As a group African Americans were poorer than white people
What prompted Harriet Tubman to escape in 1849?
Her master threatened to sell her
Why do we know very little about the underground railroad?
It was a secret and unofficial organization with no centralized command.
Which of the following was true of the Union's decision to enlist black soldiers?
It was assumed that they would serve in segregated units.
Which of the following was true of the sexual exploitation of slave women by white men?
It was common throughout the South.
Which of the following best characterizes the response of southern white people to the efforts of former slaves to acquire an education?
Most considered such efforts to be pointless.
Which of the following was true of the religion of slaves in the mid-nineteenth century?
Most were Protestants.
Which of the following contributed most to white southerners' fear that they were under threat
Nat Turner's Uprising
Which of the following statements about segregation is true?
Northern hotels refused to rent rooms to African Americans.
Which of the following made the implementation of Radical Reconstruction possible?
Republican victories in the 1866 congressional election
What did Harriet Tubman and Mary Elizabeth Bowser have in common?
They both spied for the Union.
Which of the following was true of early white abolitionists in the North?
They did very little to promote abolition in the South.
How did skilled slaves differ from field slaves?
They had more opportunities to leave the plantation.
How did free African Americans in the North respond to the outbreak of war?
They offered their service to the Union.
Which is true of African Americans living in the Upper South?
They were assumed to be slaves unless they could prove otherwise.
Which of the following was true of the northern black elite in the antebellum period?
They were often professionals who served black communities.
How were black people treated in the American Anti-Slavery Society?
They were often refused leadership roles or significant influence in decision making.
Under sharecropping, what did laborers receive in exchange for their work?
a portion of the crop
Free black communities in the early nineteenth century were characterized by __________.
active church congregations
Northern white people passed __________ laws in order to limit the rights and freedom of free African Americans.
black
Former slaves understood that __________ was inseparable from freedom
education
Which of the following best explains the westward spread of cotton cultivation between 1830 and 1860?
growing demand for cotton in Britain and New England
In September 1862, the Louisiana Native Guards __________.
joined the Union side
Most African Americans who went west were __________.
men
From 1863 to 1865, African American soldiers __________.
participated in almost every battle
Radical Republicans focused on __________.
securing voting rights for black men
As soon as slavery ended, many ex-slaves __________.
set out to find family members who had been sold
The strategy known as moral suasion emphasized the __________ consequences of slavery.
spiritual
By __________, Lincoln had decided that emancipation was necessary if the Union was to win the war.
summer 1862
As the American Anti-Slavery Society increased in prominence in the 1830s, _________.
the black convention movement lost momentum
Lincoln's concerns about __________ shaped his initial policies toward runaway slaves.
the border states
The Free Soil Party opposed __________.
the expansion of slavery into new territories
The many advertisements for missing persons in black newspapers following the Civil War was a testimony to __________.
the strength of familial ties among ex-slaves
African-American advocates of colonization believed that __________.
they would never enjoy full citizenship in the United States
Most of the land set aside by the Southern Homestead Act was eventually acquired by __________.
timber companies
What was the main purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
to help newly freed slaves transition to freedom
What was the intent of General Order 11?
to protect black soldiers from Confederate abuse
Slave marriages _________.
were sometimes arranged by masters.
In Frederick Douglass's view, masters _______.
whipped their slaves for any reason
Sojourner Truth was a champion of abolition and __________.
women's rights
