8. THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1790

Quiz for Comparative Analysis White Responses to Black Rebellion Documents 8.2 and 8.3

Choose the best answer to the question.

1. What complaint did Thomas Jefferson have regarding the handling of Gabriel’s Rebellion?

There was not enough punishment of those involved.

The punishments were too harsh for those involved.

There was not enough information regarding the plot.

It inspired too many additional rebellions.

2. What solution did Jefferson suggest as a means of punishing transgressors and avoiding such insurrections in the future?

Deportation of guilty slaves abroad

Slave labor camps in the western United States

Lifetime imprisonment instead of executions

Elimination of slavery in the United States

3. According to Leonora Sansay, what did the white population of Saint-Domingue hope would come of the arrival of General Rochambeau?

The end of slavery on the island

The resurrection of Spanish rule

A return to a slave labor system

Increased trade with the French

4. According to Sansay’s account, which of the following summarizes the Africans on Saint Domingue?

Impoverished but happy to be free

Wealthy and entitled to their wealth

Content with their position of slavery

Aggressively violent and excitable

5. What can be implied about viewpoints toward slavery in the early nineteenth century based on Jefferson and Sansay’s writings from that era?

America was increasingly entrenched in the system of slavery.

Slavery was viewed by most Europeans and Americans as a necessary evil.

The abolition movement was gaining increasing strength in the New World.

Slaves were increasingly treated as equals even within the system of slavery.

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