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The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

abolished slavery everywhere in the United States.

Although colonial laws prohibited marriage contracts between slaves, masters allowed slaves to forge family ties because

all of the above are true.

In New England and the mid-Atlantic colonies, slave labor might be used in

all of the above. farming. seafaring. domestic work.

In their personal spaces, _____ provided a sense of meaning, purpose and joy to enslaved people.

family and religion

In 1905, William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois and John Hope invited two dozen black leaders to meet at Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, to

formalize their resistance to Booker T. Washington's leadership.

Slaves preferred the tasking system because

free time was available when the task was completed.

The Emancipation Proclamation:

freed slaves only in areas still in rebellion against the Union on January 1, 1863.

Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15:

gave thousands of acres of confiscated land along the Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina coasts to black families in 40-acre plots.

The Fourteenth Amendment

granted citizenship rights to African Americans, thereby overriding the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision.

Jarena Lee was known for:

her inspirational preaching.

Increases in Virginia's slave population in the 1770s were the result of

higher fertility rates among American-born slaves.

W.E.B. Du Bois believed that only a liberal arts curriculum would:

shape young African American boys into men.

The most common form of agriculture in the South after the Civil War was:

sharecropping.

Because it was the "core of the slave's existence," ___ was most contested between slave and master.

work

Benjamin Banneker is best known for

writing the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1795.

Booker T. Washington praised the black town of _____ as a model of black enterprise and leadership. He raised money for the town's continued development.

Duplicate term

Men like Robert R. Church of Memphis were representative of

Duplicate term

The black editor of the New York Age, ____, praised the unions fro uniting the races in pursuit of economic justice.

T. Thomas Fortune

The Atlantic Slave Trade officially ended on:

January 1, 1808.

In the post-Reconstruction period, a new category of laws and customs, collectively referred to as _____, restricted the relationships between white and black Americans

Jim Crow.

The new category of laws that restricted the rights of African Americans was known as

Jim Crow.

____ was the first woman in the American colonies to publish poetic expressions on political events.

Phillus Wheatley

Mother Bethel was

Richard Allen's first church.

The first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was

Richart Allen

Between 1796 and 1797, a wave of fires linked to the Haitian revolt occurred in U.S. cities along the Atlantic coast. The most costly of these fires (about two-thirds of the city was destroyed) occurred in

Savannah.

In the pseudo-scientific theory known as _____, many white Americans believed that black Americans had difficult lives because they had not evolved as fully as white Americans and Europeans.

Social Darwinism

The abolitionist newspaper launched by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 was

The Liberator

The abolitionist network known as the _____________ was resonsible for getting approximately 100.000 escaped slaves out of the South.

Underground Railroad

Although it was not admitted to the union until 1791, eight years after the Revolutionary War ended, the Green Mountain towns in this "state" seceded from New York in 1777, and wrote a constitution outlawing slavery.

Vermont

In the early 19th century, the strongest African American supporter of black emigration to Africa was

Paul Cuffe

Calling themselves the ____, thousands of blacks migrated to the western territories with groups such as the Kansas Exodus Joint Stock Company in the 1870s.

"Exodusters"

W.E.B. Du Bois rejected Booker T. Washington's emphasis on industrial arts education, instead calling for liberal arts training for the most gifted, the group that DuBois referred to as the

"Talented Tenth."

The largest slave uprising in the colonies occurred in ____ in Virginia's Tidewater region.

1730

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was established in

1909.

In most southern states, fewer than _____ of black residents owned their own land.

25%

The organization founded in 1833 that institutionalized racial abolitionism was the _____.

American Anti-Slavery Society

The only southern city where free blacks outnumbered slaves was:

Baltimore.

The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded by historian

Carter G. Woodson.

According to African American historian William C. Nell, ____ was the first person to die at the Boston Massacre of 1770.

Crispus Attucks

Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World was authored by

David Walker.

In 1822, ____ was tried for insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina, for repeating Biblical scripture from the Old Testament that promised death to "whoever steals a man."

Denmark Vesey

The Missouri slave whose legal attempts to be declared free were thwarted by the Supreme Court in 1857 was

Dred Scott.

From the beginning of colonial opposition most patriot leaders favored allowing African Americans, slave or free, to fight on the American side.

False

In 1832, black New Englanders formed the

Female Anti-Slavery Society of Salem, Massachusetts.

The former Maryland slave who became the most important black abolitionist of his day was ____.

Frederick Douglass

Which of the following states did NOT pass a gradual emancipation law during or after the Revolutionary War?

Georgia

The "conductor" on the Underground Railroad who was known as "Black Moses" was

Harriet Tubman.

All of the following EXCEPT ______ were among the thousands of African Americans who migrated to America's Far West

Henry McNeal Turner

____ became an international figure in the anti-lynching campaign.

Ida B. Wells

The only North American colony that started out with a black majority was ____.

Louisiana

The Jamaican black nationalist who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was

Marcus Garvey

The African American reformer and author of the pamphlet "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality" was

Maria Stewart

The first female newspaper editor, black or white, was

Mary Ann Shadd

_____ was the first black town in North America.

Mose

A separate black community in Tennessee, inspired by European utopian communities was:

Nashoba

Cultivating rice was considered "the most unhealthy work in which slaves were employed."

True

Freedom's Journal was the first black newspaper published in the United States.

True

Which is most accurate:

as cotton production increased, the slave population increased.

The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

banned slaveholdes from taking slaves north of the Ohio River but allowed slaveholders already in the territory to keep their slaves.

In the late 1700s (after the Revolutionary War), escaped slaves hid in the swamplands of several southern states. All of the following EXCEPT ___ were settlements formed by these escapees.

black communities in the bottomlands of western Tennessee's Wolf River.

Men like Robert R. Church of Memphis were representative of

black entrepreneurs in the South who, despite racial discrimination, were able to accumulate wealth.

Growth of the free black population in the United States was fueled by all of the following EXCEPT

certain states issuing legislation freeing all slaves who were willing to migrate to the western territories.

In 1865, in order to offer African Americans the chance to save money and purchase land and farm equipment, Congress

chartered the Freedmen's Savings Bank and Trust Company

In 1883, the Supreme Court:

declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to be unconstitutional.

White northerners - including presidents James Madison and James Monroe, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, and legislators Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun - supported resettling free African Americans on Africa's west coast for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

huge profits could be made by charging free blacks transportation and resettlement fees.

Black Americans responded to the Haitian revolution and independence from France in all of the following ways EXCEPT

hundreds of thousands of free black Americans migrating to Haiti.

The Freedmen's Bureau was created to do all of the following EXCEPT:

invest northern funds in the rebuilding of the southern infrastructure.

The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited federal and state governments from:

limiting the right to vote (the franchise) because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

The white response to slave revolts typically involved all of the following EXCEPT:

more leniency accorded to slaves.

The Spanish policy of coartacion gave slaves the right to

negotiate "self-purchase" agreements with their owners..

By 1850, the slave population had reached

over three million.

To resist being made complicit in the slave system, northern states passed _____ that banned the forcible retrun of slaves to the South.

personal liberty laws

Which of the following was a provision of the Missouri Compromise?

prohibition on the expansion of slavery south of 36° 30' in the rest (in other words, land not covered by the Missouri Compromise) of the Louisiana Territory.

Booker T. Washington's personal philosophy was based on the idea that

racial integration and the power of the franchise could come only after black people acquired work skills that made them indispensable to the southern economy.

Most white colonists believed that the most dangerous slaves were _____.

saltwater Africans.

From the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln felt that:

saving the union was more important that abolishing slavery.

In the contraband camps, black women:

seldom received the promised wages for farming, cooking, and laundry services.

The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) determined that

states could establish separate services so long as those services were equal.

African Americans who supported the British during the Revolutionary War were eventually resettled - by the British - in _____.

the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

According to W.E.B. Du Bois, the "problem of the twentieth century," was

the problem of the color line.

In the 1898 case of Williams v. Mississippi, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Mississippi's use of the literacy test and poll tax did not violate the 15th Amendment of the Constitution.

true

At the beginning of the war, free black Americans:

volunteered by the thousands for military service.

The Free African Society of Philadelphia:

was a mutual-aid association that provided assistance to needy free people.