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The Real Thomas Jefferson

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Jefferson started the nailery to __.

a)

Meet the requirements of his father-in-law, Thomas Shaw

b)

Punish adolescent enslaved boys for escaping from slavery

c)

Put enslaved boys aged 10-16 to work in a skilled trade that would allow them to rise to hilltop jobs

d)

Try out new forms of disciplining slaves and profit-sharing with overseers

2.

The severe, harsh overseer Jefferson hired to discipline slaves, giving him 2% of the profits to motivate him to treat them with then severity and discipline required to keep the nailery running

a)

Gabriel Lilly

b)

Jimmy Hemmings

c)

Issac Granger

d)

James Hubbard

3.

After James Hubbard's first escape attempt, Jefferson had him whipped severely and sold away to another plantation in the Deep South.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Jefferson spent outside of his means, leading him to be $100,000 in debt at the time of his death, forcing the sale of his slaves and the separation of families

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Jefferson believed slavery should eventually be abolished, but gradually over time, requiring "time, patience, and perseverance in the curative process."

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Jefferson believed when slaves were emancipated, they should be resettled in another land like the Caribbean or in Africa, because they could never be accepted as equal citizens of the United States

a)

False

b)

True

7.

Jefferson accepted that America's agriculture-based economy would decline the capitalist market economy that was developing in the North would be better for America.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which of the following was NOT a major achievement of Thomas Jefferson?

a)

He wrote the Declaration of Independence

b)

As president, he purchased the Louisiana Territory

c)

He founded the University of Virginia

d)

He was a general in the Revolutionary War, fighting alongside George Washington

e)

He wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom