Ariel T. Gaston
Stanley
History 1002
Fall 2018 Online
Exam #1
Multiple Choice (2 points each):
1. Mansa Musa ruled which West African empire?
A) Kongo
B) Songhai
C) Ghana
D) Mali
2.
Which was a feature of Old World and (African and European) slavery?
A) It was not race-
based
B) It was perpetual/permanent
C) All slaves were of African descent
D) Slaves were
almost always manual/agricultural laborers
3.
Which of these were transferred through the Columbian Exchange?
A) Plants
B) Animals
C)
Disease
D) People
E) All of the above
4.
What was the worst killer of slaves during the Middle Passage?
A) Smallpox
B) Corporal
Punishment
C) Suicide
D) Murder
5.
The cash crop rice was grown in which British colony?
A) Barbados
B) South Carolina
C)
Virginia
D) New York
6.
This group performed the majority of agricultural labor in the early (mid-17
th
century)
Chesapeake
A) Haitians
B) Indentured servants
C) West African slaves
D) Creoles
7.
Which rebellion facilitated the shift from indentured servitude to African slavery in America?
A) Leisler’s Rebellion
B) Stono Rebellion
C) Pontiac’s Rebellion
D) Bacon’s Rebellion
8.
Which one did NOT help codify (legalize) race-based slavery in North America?
A) 1662
Matrilineal Law
B) 1667 Religion Law
C) 1705 Black Codes
D) 1763 Treaty of Paris
9.
Proposal that sought to freedom to the slaves of American patriots in Virginia if they enlisted
in the Loyalist (British) forces.
A) Freedom suits
B) Second Continental Congress
C)
Declaration of Independence
D) Dunmore’s Proclamation
10.
Organization that hoped to end slavery in the United States by sending free African
Americans to West Africa.
A) Masons
B) American Colonization Society
C) African
Methodist Episcopal Church
D) Constitutional Convention

11.
Which was NOT a slave category on southern plantations?
A) field hand
B) yeoman
farmer
C) house servant
D) driver
12.
John C. Calhoun’s rationale that slavery benefited both the slaveholder and the slave.
A)
Domestic slave trade
B) Jim Crow
C) Manifest Destiny
D) Positive Good
13.
Led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States in Southampton County,
Virginia, in 1831.
A) Nat Turner
B) David Walker
C) Denmark Vesey
D) Gabriel Prosser
14.
Known for his “immediatist” position, this abolitionist founded
The Liberator
in 1831.
A)
William Lloyd Garrison
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Elijah Lovejoy
D) David Walker
15.
The first national women’s rights conference in U.S. history, held in upstate New York in
1848.
A) American Temperance Society
B) Seneca Falls Convention
C) Know-Nothing Party
D) Lecompton Constitution
Matching (2 points each):
16. Sculptor and one of the most prolific African American artists of the late nineteenth century
__
Edmonia Lewis_
____
17.
Black entrepreneur and social activist in late 18
th
and early 19
th
century Philadelphia
_____
James Forten_
______
18.


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