• 1. 
    When was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 repealed?

  • 1870
  • 1864
  • 1868
  • 1863
  • 2. 
    How many U.S. presidents owned enslaved people during their lifetimes?

  • 10
  • 8
  • 11
  • 12
  • 3. 
    Who was the last president believed to have brought enslaved persons to live and work at the White House?

  • James K. Polk
  • John Tyler
  • Zachary Taylor
  • Rutherford B. Hayes
  • 4. 
    Between 1525 and 1866, how many Africans were taken against their will on a voyage headed to the New World?

  • 12.5 million
  • 9 million
  • 15–17 million
  • 3–5 million
  • 5. 
    Approximately how many million Africans were delivered into the Islamic trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades between 650 and 1905?

  • 18 million
  • 9 million
  • 12 million
  • 15 million
  • 6. 
    Which was the first known major slave society?

  • Athens
  • Alexandria
  • Rome
  • Mesopotamia
  • 7. 
    Depending on the date, about what percentage of the population of Zanzibar was enslaved in Arab-Swahili slave systems of the 19th century?

  • 50–64 percent
  • 65–90 percent
  • 10–20 percent
  • 35–40 percent
  • 8. 
    By 1850 nearly what percentage of enslaved people on plantations were forced to produce cotton?

  • one-quarter
  • none of the above
  • two-thirds
  • three-quarters
  • 9. 
    In 1791 who became a reluctant leader of a rebellion in Saint-Domingue that resulted in the emancipation of enslaved people and, eventually, Haitian independence?

  • Nat Turner
  • Robert LeMarie
  • Toussaint Louverture
  • Absalom Jones
  • 10. 
    What Egyptian group, who had originally been enslaved as professional soldiers, rose to establish a dynasty that ruled Egypt and Syria?

  • Mamluks
  • Nubians
  • Circassians
  • Copts
  • 11. 
    In 1831 who led the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in United States history?

  • Nat Turner
  • Denmark Vesey
  • John Brown
  • Gabriel Prosser
  • 12. 
    How many Founding Fathers of the United States were slaveholders?

  • 17
  • 14
  • 12
  • 10
  • 13. 
    By 1781 which Founding Father had become the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Patrick Henry
  • Samuel Chase
  • 14. 
    Which state’s constitution of 1777 was the first document in the United States to abolish slavery?

  • Delaware
  • Massachusetts
  • Vermont
  • New Jersey
  • 15. 
    In 1839 who led the mutiny of 53 enslaved people on the Spanish slave ship Amistad?

  • Peter Quilling
  • Nat Turner
  • Joseph Cinqué
  • Toussaint Louverture
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