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1. Many buildings were destroyed by fire during this New York City slave rebellion. After the conspirators were captured 31 Negroes were executed as well as four whites. What year did this rebellion take place?

a. 1721

b. 1741

c. 1846

d. 1832

2. This slave revolt took place on November 7, 1841, aboard a ship that was well into her eleventh day at sea. The ship was carrying 103 slaves from Richmond (who boarded on or before October 25, 1841) and 32 slaves from Hampton Roads (who boarded on October 27, 1841), Virginia, to the port of New Orleans, Louisiana. What was the name of the ship?

a. The Amistad

b. The Brig American

c. The Brig Creole

d. The Louisiana

3. The largest slave revolt in US history was led by:

a. Nat Turner

b. Gabriel Prosser

c. Charles Deslondes

d. Denmark Vesey

4. 22 men, including five African Americans, seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to ignite a slave rebellion. Who was their leader?

a. Nat Turner

b. Gabriel Prosser

c. John Brown

d. Denmark Vesey

5. A Federal law prohibiting the importation of African Slaves into the United States went into effect on what date?

a. January 1, 1812

b. January 1, 1808

c. January 1, 1865

d. January 1, 1800

6. On December 14, 1820, two white men forcibly entered the home of a Negro in Kennet Township, Pennsylvania, seeking to kidnap the Negro and sell him into slavery. The two white men were killed by the Negro, who was acquitted of the killing of one, and convicted of manslaughter in the killing of the other and sentenced to nine years imprisonment. What was this Negro's name?

a. George Walker

b. John Read

c. Absalom Jones

d. Pencell

7. This newspaper, the first to be published by an African American, was owned and edited by John B. Russwurm and Samuel Cornish and first appeared in New York city on March 16, 1827. What was the name of the newspaper?

a. The Crisis

b. The Liberator

c. Freedom's Journal

d. The Anglo African

8. Slavery was officially ended in New York state on what date?

a. July 4, 1827

b. January 1, 1865

c. January 1, 1822

d. July 4, 1776

9. Which of the following newspapers was NOT published by an African American?

a. The Liberator

b. Freedom's Journal

c. The African Sentinel and Journal of Liberty

d. Rights of All

10. Aletheia Turner, Jane Minor, John C. Stanly and John Updike. What did these African Americans have in common?

a. The were co-conspirators in John Brown's rebellion at Harper Ferry.

b. They devoted much of their lives and earnings to buying and then freeing other Negroes.

c. They published the Negro newspaper "Rights of All."

d. They escaped from slavery and fled to Canada.

11. Robert Purvis, James Needham, Frederick A. Hinton, Thomas Butler and William S. Gordon were among men who founded what Negro institution in 1833?

a. The Philadelphia Negro Library

b. New Bethel AME Church

c. The Phoenix Society

d. The American Anti-slavery Society

12. The first state convention of African Americans in Michigan convened with twenty three delegates in Detroit. What dates did this convention take place?

a. October 26-27, 1843

b. January 1, 1865

c. July 4 - 5, 1888

d. February 2, 1876

13. Henry Weeden, William C. Nell, Judith Smith, Mary L. Armstead and Thomas Cummings had what in common?

a. They formed the "New England Freedom Association" in 1845 to carry on the illegal work of assisting fugitive slaves.

b. They were delegates to the "Fifth Annual Convention of New York Negroes" in 1844.

c. They published the "North Star."

d. They were escaped slaves who fled to New York in 1846.

14. In July 1847, this African American resident of Missouri filed suit for his freedom in a US Circuit Court. In March 1857 the US Supreme Court ruled in the case, deciding that African Americans were not citizens of the US, that a slave who lives in free territory is still a slave and that slavery cannot be prohibited from the territories. What was this slave's name?

a. Frederick Douglass

b. James Barbadoes

c. Dred Scott

d. Quash

15. In January 1849 this slave couple escaped from Georgia, the wife dressed in man's clothing and passing as the master while her husband passed as the servant. What was this couple's name?

a. Peter and Vina Still

b. Solomon and Anne Northup

c. Frederick and Jane Bailey

d. Ellen and William Craft

16. Rev. Moses Dickson of Ohio, John Patton and Henry Wright of South Carolina, James Bedford and Silas W. Green of Mississippi, Irving Hodges of Alabama, Peter Coleman and Willis Owens of Virginia, James Orr of Louisiana, Miles Graves of North Carolina, Henry Simpson of Georgia and Lewis Williams of Tennessee met in St. Louis in 1846 and formed what organization for the purpose of "aiding in breaking the bonds of our slavery?"

a. The Twelve Knights of Tabor

b. The Underground Railroad

c. The American Colonization Society

d. The New England Freedom Association

17. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed all the slaves in the United States.

a. True

b. False

18. This African American escaped from slavery by hiding in a box, three feet long, and two feet six inches deep. For twenty-seven hours he was enclosed in this box as he travelled from Richmond, Virginia to Philadelphia. What was his name?

a. Frederick Bailey

b. Peter Still

c. Henry Brown

d. Nat Turner

19. Born Araminta Ross in either 1820 or 1821 on a plantation in Bucktown, Maryland, this African American escaped slavery and aided many other slaves in escaping slavery. What was her name?

a. Sojourner Truth

b. Charlotte Forten

c.Harriet Tubman

d. Sarah Mapps Douglas

20. This African Muslim, a son of the King of the Fulani people in Western Africa, was sold into slavery and became the property of Thomas Foster of Natchez, Mississippi. What was his name?

a. Ibrahima Abdur Rahman

b. Sengbe Pieh

c. Olaudah Equiano

d. Benjamin Quarles