8. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 8: Race Relations in the Early Republic

**Quiz for Document 8.1: Confession of Solomon (September 1800)**

Quiz for Document 8.1: Confession of Solomon (September 1800)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Which of the following events provided a model for Gabriel’s plan to organize a slave rebellion?

Shays’s Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion

The Haitian Revolution

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

2. The evidence contained in Solomon’s confession supports which of the following conclusions?

In 1800, some slaves had access to enough freedom of movement that they could form networks with slaves in other areas.

It was not unusual in 1800 for slaves in the South to have easy access to a variety of weapons and plentiful ammunition.

Because they had little access to literacy and formal education of any kind, it was difficult for slaves to plan ahead and organize.

Most slaves in 1800 had little to no access to information about significant events taking place in the United States and internationally.

3. Why did Gabriel and the other slaves decide to undertake their uprising at the time they did?

They realized that the growing importance of cotton agriculture was soon going to constrain them.

They knew that many soldiers had recently left Richmond, which would ease the execution of their plan.

Virginia’s governor had recently signed new legislation that would limit slaves’ movement across town borders.

They heard from a calculating overseer that slaves were rebelling in cities all across the United States.

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