What were Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist leaders able to accomplish for Massachusetts' public schools?
A) They persuaded city leaders to allow all-black schools to be established.
B) They worked to desegregate the schools, including those in Boston, by 1845.
C) They pushed for African history to be taught as well as white European history.
D) They persuaded city leaders to pay black teachers the same as white teachers.
Ans: B) They worked to desegregate the schools, including those in Boston, by 1845.
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How did some northern communities react to fugitive slave laws prior to 1850?
A) They tried to comply with the laws entirely to avoid southern state prosecution. B) They passed personal liberty laws making it illegal for police to capture runaways. C) They declared the laws null and void under the Constitution. D) They decided to fire on Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.
African American soldiers on the frontier were called “Buffalo Soldiers” by the Indians
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The former slave who preached resistance to slavery and planned a major slave uprising in Charleston was
A) David Walker. B) James Hamlet. C) Nat Turner. D) Denmark Vesey.
Among the structural shifts undermining the Mongol state in the 1300s was
A. an extended warming period and drought. B. a population increase. C. food overproduction. D. price inflation caused by excess paper money.