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Which of the following present-day countries in 1789 was the Caribbean island that saw its African slave population rise up and successfully overthrow its much smaller French population? |
| | A) | Barbados |
| | B) | Jamaica |
| | C) | Cuba |
| | D) | Haiti |
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The nation's first black literary tradition was centered around which of the following? |
| | A) | poetry |
| | B) | abolition pamphlets |
| | C) | slave narratives |
| | D) | fictional novels |
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By 1790, the number of people of African descent in the newly forming United States stood at approximately |
| | A) | 750,000 persons. |
| | B) | 3 million persons. |
| | C) | 200,000 persons. |
| | D) | 18 million persons. |
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Which of the following was the only Mid-Atlantic state that failed to pass laws in favor of emancipation soon after the American Revolution? |
| | A) | New Jersey |
| | B) | Delaware |
| | C) | New York |
| | D) | Pennsylvania |
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Throughout the entire antebellum period, which of the following cities had the highest free black population in the nation, so large they outnumbered the slaves? |
| | A) | Boston |
| | B) | New York |
| | C) | Savannah |
| | D) | Baltimore |
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Due to its early abolition of the slave trade, which of the following cities saw its black population rise a staggering 53 percent between 1790 and 1800? |
| | A) | Boston |
| | B) | Baltimore |
| | C) | Providence |
| | D) | Washington |
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Which of the following states passed the Gradual Emancipation Act of 1780, the nation's first? |
| | A) | Georgia |
| | B) | New Jersey |
| | C) | Pennsylvania |
| | D) | Massachusetts |
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The first recognized organization in the nation devoted to the building of a free-black community was the ________ of Newport, Rhode Island, founded in 1780. |
| | A) | African Society |
| | B) | African Society for Mutual Relief |
| | C) | Free African Society |
| | D) | Society of Free Africans |
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The movement to establish ________ demonstrated the desire of African American communities to build their own institutions for the purpose of sharing emotional traditions, not necessarily to separate from the white community. |
| | A) | separate black towns |
| | B) | independent black churches |
| | C) | black "reservations" |
| | D) | collective black farms |
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The first black-led religious denomination in the United States, founded in 1816, was the |
| | A) | Episcopal Africans Methodist Church |
| | B) | African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
| | C) | African Church of God. |
| | D) | African Presbyterian Church. |
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The first black fraternal organization in the United States was the |
| | A) | African Masonic Lodge in America. |
| | B) | Mennonites. |
| | C) | New World African Fellowship. |
| | D) | Skull and Bones Society |
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The first annual holiday specifically recognized for black people in the United States |
| | A) | celebrated the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | B) | celebrated the traditional end of the cotton crop. |
| | C) | celebrated the end of slavery. |
| | D) | celebrated the end of the slave trade in 1808. |
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Although free black property holders had once voted in most of the northern states and some southern states, ________ was the first state in 1801 to exclude these blacks by abolishing property restrictions to the franchise. |
| | A) | Maryland |
| | B) | Georgia |
| | C) | South Carolina |
| | D) | Vermont |
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The two political parties active in American government in the late 1790s were the Federalists (more sympathetic to abolition and black issues) and the |
| | A) | Democratic-Republicans. |
| | B) | Democrats. |
| | C) | Republicans. |
| | D) | Tories. |
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The second New World nation to win its colonial independence after the United States was |
| | A) | Cuba. |
| | B) | the Bahamas. |
| | C) | Barbados. |
| | D) | Haiti. |
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In 1798 the United States began an undeclared naval war with France, known as the ________, which would help Napoleon decide to sell Louisiana to the United States five years later. |
| | A) | Quasi-War |
| | B) | War of Jenkins's Ear |
| | C) | War of the Roses |
| | D) | Napoleonic War |
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Federalists John Jay and Alexander Hamilton were among the founders of the New York ________ Society in 1785. |
| | A) | Secessionists |
| | B) | Manumission |
| | C) | Federalist |
| | D) | Freemason |
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________ elections were especially contentious during the first two decades of the nineteenth century, since the state was perceived as holding the balance of power between Federalist New England and the Democratic-Republican South. |
| | A) | Pennsylvania's |
| | B) | New York's |
| | C) | Georgia's |
| | D) | Maryland's |
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Black pamphleteers fostered a sense of shared identity in the nation's black communities through the repeated celebration of both the founding of Haiti in 1804 and |
| | A) | their white masters. |
| | B) | emancipation from the federal government. |
| | C) | the end of the slave trade to the U.S. in 1808. |
| | D) | the great conspiracy against their white masters that would come. |
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Which of the following was the nation's first (1827) black-edited newspaper? |
| | A) | The Voice |
| | B) | The Independent Ledger |
| | C) | Freedom's Journal |
| | D) | The Gazetteer |
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The famous black pamphleteer and first Grand Master of the African Masonic Lodge was |
| | A) | Prince Hall. |
| | B) | Prince Albert. |
| | C) | Olaudah Equiano. |
| | D) | W. E. B. Dubois. |
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In 1794 Absalom Jones and Richard Allen became the first blacks to receive a ________ from the United Sates government for their pamphlet documenting Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic. |
| | A) | limited offer of employment |
| | B) | death sentence |
| | C) | Pulitzer prize |
| | D) | copyright |
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During the period of the late eighteenth century, ________ wrote the most widely reprinted book in English by a person of African descent. |
| | A) | Louisa May Alcott |
| | B) | Harriet Tubman |
| | C) | Olaudah Equiano |
| | D) | Prince Hall |
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The "black Poor Richard" who produced a famous almanac from 1791 to 1802 was |
| | A) | Frederick Douglass. |
| | B) | Benjamin Franklin. |
| | C) | Benjamin Banneker. |
| | D) | William Clinton. |
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first documented professional American painter of African descent was ________, who worked in and around Baltimore. |
| | A) | Joshua Johnston |
| | B) | John Sargent |
| | C) | Frederick Douglas Taylor |
| | D) | John Hopper |
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After the American Revolution, the second conflict between the United States and Great Britain was |
| | A) | the French and Indian War. |
| | B) | the War of 1812. |
| | C) | the Pequot War. |
| | D) | King George's War |
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The British occupied and burned the city of ________ in 1814. |
| | A) | Atlanta |
| | B) | Washington, D.C. |
| | C) | Boston |
| | D) | New York |
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Free men of color were called upon by then-general Andrew Jackson to join his troops and repel the British in which of the following military actions? |
| | A) | the Defense of Atlanta |
| | B) | the Battle of Charleston |
| | C) | the Defense of Ticonderoga |
| | D) | the Battle of New Orleans |
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Leading activist, sailor, and merchant Paul Cuffee dedicated much of his life and fortune to the colonization of free blacks to ________ on Africa's western coast. |
| | A) | Sierra Leone |
| | B) | Timbuktu |
| | C) | the Ivory Coast |
| | D) | Monrovia |
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Gabriel's 1793 rebellion in Virginia was almost certainly triggered by which of the following? |
| | A) | the invasion of Roanoke by British Redcoats |
| | B) | raging smallpox among the white colonists |
| | C) | news from black mariners about the success of the Haitian Revolution. |
| | D) | dire food shortages |
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