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Question
1. Manumission is when slaves obtain their freedom from their owners. Which of the following is not a reason why more slaveholders did not engage in this practice?
a. Slaves were a valuable asset that could be passed down to heirs
b. States required former slaveholders were required to ensure that their former slaves had the means to survive after becoming free, creating a cost or debt obligation that disincentivized freeing slaves for many slaveholders without a government subsidy.
c. When given the option of remaining slaves or becoming free, most people of African descent chose to remain slaves due to the uncertainty of what their lives would be like if free.
d. Slaveholders were afraid of what might happen if many slaves in their communities became free and agitated for political rights - or more.
2. Which is the correct description of the following political systems?
a. The European Union is a federal system, the United States (after 1789) has a unitary system of government and Japan is a confederation.
b. The United States (after 1789) is a federal system, the European Union has a unitary system of government and Japan is a confederation.
c. Japan is a federal system, the European Union has a unitary system of government and the United States (after 1789) is a confederation.
d. The United States (after 1789) is a federal system, Japan has a unitary system of government and the European Union is a confederation.
3. In the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was common for slaveowners and the white people they hired to oversee their slaves to procreate with some of those slaves.
a. True
b. False
4. William Lloyd Garrison encouraged his white abolitionist followers to engage in partisan politics to elect leaders sympathetic to the cause of freeing the slaves
a. True
b. False
5. Frederick Douglass believed that the abolitionist beliefs of early federal leaders who helped write the Constitution, like Benjamin Franklin and Gouvenour Morris, should influence how his contemporaries in the mid-1800's should interpret the Constitution as an anti-slavery document.
a. True
b. False
6. Why did the Compromise of 1820 unravel?
a. The Compromise of 1820 unraveled after the election of Abraham Lincoln and his Republican allies, causing southern Democrats to secede.
b. The Compromise of 1820 unraveled when western expansion led to more territories desiring to be admitted to the Union as free states, causing the slave states to lose their ability to block anti-slavery legislation in the Senate.
c. The Compromise of 1820 unraveled after the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision invalidated much of it by ruling that the federal government could not limit slave ownership in the western territories
d. Rising abolitionist sentiment turned public opinion in the north and west against compromises that allowed slavery to persist
7. Which of the following sentences best describes the views of Lincoln and Douglass before the civil war?
a. Lincoln thought that slaves should be freed and given the political rights of other men in America. Douglass disagreed, arguing that slaves should have the option of remaining in America or returning to Africa.
b. Lincoln thought that slaves should be freed and given the political rights of other men in America. Douglass agreed, but thought it would be more realistic to just demand abolition and let political rights be decided in later years.
c. Lincoln thought that slaves should be freed - with slaveholders given compensation for their losses - and the former slaves should be encouraged to move to Africa. Douglass completely agreed.
d. Lincoln thought that slaves should be freed - with slaveholders given compensation for their losses - and the former slaves should be encouraged to move to Africa. Douglass disagreed with encouraging their move to Africa.