Chapter 5 (McGraw/Hill)

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The term used by historian Edmund Morgan to describe the Founding Fathers' devotion to freedom while continuing to enslave blacks.

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American paradox

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The weak document unifying the former colonies after the Revolutionary War.

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Articles of Confederation

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Delegations that found Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence unacceptable due to its condemnation of slavery.

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Lower South

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Organization to which prolific anti-slavery writers John Woolman and Anthony Benezet belonged.

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Quakers

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The runaway slave slain in the Boston Massacre, known as the first martyr for American freedom.

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Crispus Attucks

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Acclaimed Boston slave who published poetry in the 1770s

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Phillis Wheatley

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Policy approved in 1776 for free blacks to reenlist in the Continental Army

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The Continental Congress

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Estimated number of African Americans in the Revolutionary War

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5,000

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1787 ordinance that prohibited slavery in new territories

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Northwest Ordinance

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Concessions won by Southern delegates in the 1787 Constitution

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All of these answers are correct