Period 3 Test
Period 3 (1754-1800): Multiple Choice Exam
Questions 1-4 refer to the following image: Advertisement, Charleston, South Carolina, 1780s
1. Which of the following BEST reflects the perspective of the above image?
a. Slaves represent a public health threat.
b. The importation of slaves is a legitimate enterprise.
c. The importation of slaves needs to be halted
d. Smallpox was a continuous danger to Charleston
2. During the 1780s, which of the following was the most widespread crop cultivated by slaves in North America?
a. Wheat
b. Sugar
c. Tobacco
d. Cotton
3. Following the American Revolution, many Founding Fathers believed which of the following?
a. Slavery would gradually disappear in the United States.
b. The freeing of slaves should be outlawed.
c. Slavery would be the foundation of the American economy.
d. Freed slaves deserved government reparations for their suffering.
4. Which of the following was a reference to slavery in the Constitution?
a. The banning of slavery in the Northwest Territory.
b. Slavery was outlawed above the Mason-Dixon Line.
c. Slavery could not be outlawed.
d. A prohibition for 20 years of any law banning the importation of slaves.
Questions 5-8 refer to the quotation below.
Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions
Questions 1-4 refer to the following image: Advertisement, Charleston, South Carolina, 1780s
1. Which of the following BEST reflects the perspective of the above image?
a. Slaves represent a public health threat.
b. The importation of slaves is a legitimate enterprise.
c. The importation of slaves needs to be halted
d. Smallpox was a continuous danger to Charleston
2. During the 1780s, which of the following was the most widespread crop cultivated by slaves in North America?
a. Wheat
b. Sugar
c. Tobacco
d. Cotton
3. Following the American Revolution, many Founding Fathers believed which of the following?
a. Slavery would gradually disappear in the United States.
b. The freeing of slaves should be outlawed.
c. Slavery would be the foundation of the American economy.
d. Freed slaves deserved government reparations for their suffering.
4. Which of the following was a reference to slavery in the Constitution?
a. The banning of slavery in the Northwest Territory.
b. Slavery was outlawed above the Mason-Dixon Line.
c. Slavery could not be outlawed.
d. A prohibition for 20 years of any law banning the importation of slaves.
Questions 5-8 refer to the quotation below.
Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions