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Which of the following was NOT among the three events identified in the text that heralded the age of militant abolitionism? |
| | A) | the first issue of The Liberator |
| | B) | John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry |
| | C) | the publication of David Walker's Appeal |
| | D) | Nat Turner's insurrection |
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When did black people first begin advocating an end to slavery in the U.S.? |
| | A) | before there was a U.S., before the Revolutionary War |
| | B) | around the time "King Cotton" began to dominate the southern economy |
| | C) | when Quakers began publicly denouncing slavery |
| | D) | when the English antislavery movement began to be felt in the U.S. |
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Which of the following is NOT among the black "founding fathers" of abolitionism? |
| | A) | Robert Purvis |
| | B) | John B. Vashon |
| | C) | Abraham Shadd |
| | D) | William Lloyd Garrison |
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How were women, both white and black, viewed by most men, white and black, in the abolitionist movement? |
| | A) | Most men did not approve of any kind of public role for female abolitionists. |
| | B) | Most men welcomed the "special appeal" female abolitionists had to particularly hostile audiences. |
| | C) | Most men were ambivalent, since women played no significant role in the abolitionist movement. |
| | D) | Most men allowed women to participate in the movement, but were very paternalistic and did so only grudgingly. |
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What event prompted Frederick Douglass, at the time already a very famous abolitionist, to adopt the rhetoric of violence about how slavery should end? |
| | A) | the publication of David Walker's Appeal |
| | B) | the passage of the fugitive slave act of 1850 |
| | C) | John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry |
| | D) | the Nullification Crisis |
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What special role did abolitionists James W. C. Pennington, Nathaniel Paul, and Ellen and William Craft play in the movement? |
| | A) | They were the movement's best speakers, guaranteed to "bring the house down." |
| | B) | They were the movement's most identifiable names at the time. |
| | C) | They (among others) spread the message of the movement to Europe, linking with humanitarian movements there. |
| | D) | They were the leaders who relentlessly petitioned Congress for a bill to end slavery. |
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What black antislavery leader became an American hero for his many accomplishments? |
| | A) | Henry Highland Garnet |
| | B) | Frederick Douglass |
| | C) | David Walker |
| | D) | William Wells Brown |
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What was the first black newspaper? |
| | A) | The Liberator |
| | B) | Freedom's Journal |
| | C) | the National Watchman |
| | D) | the Mirror of Liberty |
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Charles Grandison Finney preached that slavery was contrary to the teachings of Christianity. Finney was a leader of what movement? |
| | A) | the Second Great Awakening |
| | B) | the black convention movement |
| | C) | international humanitarianism |
| | D) | colonization |
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What abolitionist stated that "Arbitrary power is to the mind what alcohol is to the body; it intoxicates"? |
| | A) | Charles Grandison Finney |
| | B) | Theodore Dwight Weld |
| | C) | James G. Birney |
| | D) | William Lloyd Garrison |
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What was the first avowedly integrated school of higher learning in the U.S.? |
| | A) | Bowdoin College |
| | B) | Oberlin College |
| | C) | Howard University |
| | D) | Morehouse College |
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The American Anti-Slavery Society began to divide, with some members supporting William Lloyd Garrison and others supporting Lewis Tappan. Which of the following terms best describes Garrison's followers as compared to Tappan's? |
| | A) | supporters of women's rights |
| | B) | had more support in the Border States |
| | C) | friendly toward churches |
| | D) | focused solely on slavery |
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Which of the following was NOT among the reasons for divisions between white and black abolitionists? |
| | A) | Black abolitionists sometimes felt white abolitionists were paternalistic. |
| | B) | Black abolitionists grew frustrated when white abolitionists did not address racial subordination generally, rather than simply focusing on slavery. |
| | C) | There had been instances when white female abolitionists had refused to allow black women to attend white antislavery fairs. |
| | D) | Black abolitionists were shocked when William Lloyd Garrison suddenly began to advocate violence. |
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Which of the following was NOT among the four main proslavery arguments of the era? |
| | A) | Blacks were biologically and mentally inferior to whites. |
| | B) | Slave labor was a necessary basis for the rise of civilization and the economic development of the South. |
| | C) | The Founding Fathers had set a precedent, in the Constitution, that could not be questioned without bringing the entire U.S. system of government and way of life into question. |
| | D) | History itself destined blacks to occupy a subordinate position in society. |
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How did President Andrew Jackson respond to a southern postmasters' ban, implemented on their own, on abolitionist literature in the mail? |
| | A) | He actively supported the ban. |
| | B) | He publicly denounced the ban, but privately thought it was a good idea. |
| | C) | He made a plea to Congress to pass legislation to end the ban. |
| | D) | He planned to issue an executive order to end it, but was persuaded by cabinet members that it would be too inflammatory. |
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In Petersburg, Virginia, during the worsening era of conflict over slavery, a white man said that "black men have, in the abstract, a right to their freedom." What happened to him? |
| | A) | He was jailed. |
| | B) | He was lashed and ordered to leave town. |
| | C) | He was fined. |
| | D) | He was ostracized by the community and asked to leave his church. |
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How were abolitionists treated by most of the population of the North in the 1830s and early 1840s? |
| | A) | They were generally condemned. |
| | B) | They were generally tolerated. |
| | C) | They were generally ignored. |
| | D) | They were generally supported. |
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How did the four presidents who served in this era (Jackson, Tyler, Polk, and Taylor) approach the issue of abolition? |
| | A) | They all held different opinions on the issue. |
| | B) | They all joined in the persecution of abolitionists. |
| | C) | They supported abolition, but only in private. |
| | D) | Jackson and Tyler, who owned slaves, vehemently opposed abolition, but Polk and Taylor were noncommittal on the issue. |
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When was the "gag rule" implemented in 1836, which required that all antislavery petitions to Congress be tabled, finally rescinded? |
| | A) | 1840 |
| | B) | 1845 |
| | C) | 1850 |
| | D) | It was never formally rescinded, but the end of the Civil War made it pointless. |
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In the mid-1850s, what group began to win political victories in the North by campaigning on the slogan of "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, and Free Men"? |
| | A) | antislavery Republicans |
| | B) | antislavery Democrats |
| | C) | American Independents |
| | D) | the Know-Nothings |
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What black abolitionist does the text describe as "the most erudite and prolific abolitionist to challenge ideas of innate black inferiority"? |
| | A) | Frederick Douglass |
| | B) | James McCune Smith |
| | C) | William Wells Brown |
| | D) | Harriet Jacobs |
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Who were the most influential black writers to refute the idea that slaves were happy and contented in their lives? |
| | A) | former slaves |
| | B) | black ministers of all denominations |
| | C) | black professors |
| | D) | "reformed" former slave owners |
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What black writer produced over one hundred articles on historical, biographical, political, and scientific subjects? |
| | A) | Solomon Northup |
| | B) | James McCune Smith |
| | C) | William C. Nell |
| | D) | William Wells Brown |
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When did the Underground Railroad originate? |
| | A) | in the eighteenth century |
| | B) | in 1831 |
| | C) | in the early 1820s |
| | D) | in 1850, in response to the Fugitive Slave Law |
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How many slaves gained their freedom via the Underground Railroad? |
| | A) | about 100,000 |
| | B) | about 40,000 |
| | C) | about 12,000 |
| | D) | The number is unknown. |
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Who was the so-called president of the Underground Railroad? |
| | A) | Harriet Tubman |
| | B) | Jermain Loguen |
| | C) | Levi Coffin |
| | D) | Elijah Anderson |
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How many times did Harriet Tubman, after escaping from slavery herself, return to Maryland to bring out family members and other slaves when she was a conductor for the Underground Railroad? |
| | A) | four |
| | B) | six |
| | C) | nine |
| | D) | fourteen |
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Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850? |
| | A) | a stringent fugitive slave law |
| | B) | California's entry into the Union as a free state |
| | C) | settlement of Texas's debts |
| | D) | an exemption to allow the public sale of slaves in Washington, D.C. to continue |
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Which of the following was NOT part of the Dred Scott decision? |
| | A) | The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional. |
| | B) | Chief Justice Roger Taney declared that even free blacks could never be U.S. citizens. |
| | C) | The inequality of all blacks was reinforced. |
| | D) | Congress could not address slavery in the states but it could ban slavery in the federal territories. |
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What was the purpose of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry? |
| | A) | to secure enough ammunition from a federal arsenal to carry out a large-scale operation against slavery in the South |
| | B) | to make the issue of "Bloody Kansas" more public |
| | C) | to make himself a martyr to the abolitionist cause |
| | D) | to begin a series of rumors of slave insurrection so that southern slaveholders might be frightened into agreeing to end slavery |
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