Freedom, Enslavement & Resistance unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 34 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 2, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 31 min 28 points0/17 attempted

Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)

Cotton gin (1793) and slavery's expansion

Colonization movement and Black opposition

Domestic slave trade after 1808

Abolitionism: gradual vs immediate

"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (1852)

Everyday resistance

Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)

Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

German Coast Uprising (1811)

Sharecropping and debt peonage

Convict leasing

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Task system vs gang system

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Sojourner Truth

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: David Walker's Appeal (1829)

3 pts

Free response

4 pts

SHORT-ANSWER QUESTION 1: Text-Based Source (4 points). Read the summary of the source. The source is Harriet Tubman's reflection recorded in Benjamin Drew's 1856 book The Refugee. Tubman recalls growing up "like a neglected weed," ignorant of liberty, living in constant fear of being carried away — two of her sisters were taken in a chain gang. Now free, she says she understands what a dreadful condition slavery is; she has seen hundreds of escaped slaves and never one willing to go back. She and others would rather live in their native land if they could be as free there, and she judges slavery "the next thing to hell."

A. Describe one claim the author makes in the source.

B. Describe one piece of evidence not included in the source that supports a claim the author makes.

C. Explain how Harriet Tubman contributed to change for African Americans in the nineteenth century.

D. Using a specific example, explain how an African American woman’s or women’s political activism in the twentieth or twenty-first century helped overcome the legacy of enslavement.