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Quiz for Document 15–3: Report of the Committee of Merchants for the Relief of Colored People Suffering from the Late Riots in the City of New York, 1863

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What plausible conclusion about black New Yorkers can be drawn from the list of people offered relief by the merchants’ committee?

African Americans in New York were fully integrated into society.

Women constituted an underclass to the more successful black men.

African Americans were the lower working class of New York City.

The economic success of black New Yorkers surpassed that of immigrants.

2. What type of violence did black New Yorkers face during the riots?

Only minor incidents of assault and looting

Violence perpetrated against them by the police and military

Violence targeting wealthy black New Yorkers

Murder, violent assaults, and destruction of their property

3. How did religion factor into the merchants’ committee’s descriptions of the riots?

Several victims were upstanding and peaceful members of local churches.

The mobs used religion to justify their violence against black New Yorkers.

Only churches were left unscathed in the riots.

White ministers urged their members to cease rioting.