A) Virginia
B) New York
C) Massachusetts
D) Pennsylvania
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A) The trade could not be abolished without the unanimous consent of all of the states.
B) The trade would be ended immediately,though it could be reopened after twenty years should Congress vote in favor of it.
C) Congress would have the power to decide whether or not to end the trade,but would not be able to exercise that power for twenty years after the new government came into being.
D) Twenty years after the new government came into being,the slave trade would automatically come to an end,with or without action from Congress.
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A) Massachusetts
B) New Jersey
C) Pennsylvania
D) Virginia
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A) It defined all blacks as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation.
B) It defined both blacks and "Indians not taxed" as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation.
C) It defined both slaves and indentured servants as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation and taxation.
D) It made no explicit reference to slavery or to blacks,referring instead to "all other persons" besides free persons,indentured servants,and certain Indians.
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A) After the war,the British re-enslaved all of the blacks who had fled to their lines and gave them to the Loyalists.
B) After the war,the British insisted that Loyalists who wished to relocate within the British Empire had to emancipate their slaves.
C) After the war,many free blacks went to live in Canada,whereas white Loyalists took their slaves to West Africa,where they established a new slave-based colony.
D) After the war,many free black migrated to London,whereas white Loyalists took their slaves to the Caribbean.
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A) New York.
B) New Jersey.
C) Pennsylvania.
D) Delaware.
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A) property ownership was seen as an essential element of republican government.
B) egalitarian principles required the firm opposition to any form of arbitrary subjugation,especially slavery.
C) equality among white men could best be achieved by a system of racial slavery which elevated all of them above the status of slaves.
D) civic virtue was an important ideal of a true republic.
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A) They were staunch abolitionists who made no distinction between the slaves of Patriots and the slaves of Loyalists,granting freedom to both.
B) Their policy toward slaves was based largely on military expedience,and they sometimes abandoned slave allies when military necessity compelled them to do so.
C) They refused to pursue the initiatives of earlier British commanders who had offered freedom to Patriots' slaves,and instead insisted on returning all slaves to their masters.
D) Their official policy was to sell off any slaves who came to their lines in order to raise funds to support their armies.
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A) Prince Whipple
B) Pompey
C) James Armistead Lafayette
D) Gilbert du Motier
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A) 300
B) 3000
C) 30,000
D) 300,000
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A) Massachusetts
B) Pennsylvania
C) South Carolina
D) Georgia
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A) Barzillai Lew
B) Briton Hammon
C) Titus Colburn
D) Sampson Talbert
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A) Property is the basis of freedom but slaves themselves are property.
B) Men hold social dominance over women regardless of respective races.
C) Equality for white men was built upon the enslavement of black men.
D) American colonists fought against British slavery while owning slaves of their own.
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A) soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
B) authors of political tracts which united the struggle against British tyranny with the struggle against slavery.
C) delegates to the First Continental Congress.
D) leaders of a British-inspired slave uprising in the South.
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A) 5000
B) 20,000
C) 50,000
D) 65,000
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A) John Jay and Alexander Hamilton
B) Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson
C) Benjamin Rush and John Adams
D) Noah Webster and Theodore Dwight
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A) Sierra Leone
B) Cameroon
C) South Africa
D) Ivory Coast
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A) Quakers.
B) Baptists.
C) Methodists.
D) Anglicans.
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A) 13,000
B) 23,000
C) 73,000
D) 103,000
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A) 29
B) 15
C) 1
D) 0
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