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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: Slavery and American Law; Race and Identity — Drill 10 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
Practice AP African American Studies exam questions on slave codes, landmark legal cases involving enslaved people, and the social construction of race in America. This drill builds AP exam prep skills in source analysis and disciplinary knowledge for Unit 2.
Passage
“That all servants imported and brought into this country, by sea or land, who were not Christians in their native country, shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto, and Indian slaves within this dominion shall be held, taken, and adjudged to be real estate.”
— Virginia Act Concerning Servants and Slaves, 1705
Questions in This Drill
- The Virginia law excerpted above is best understood as an example of which of the following?
- The provision classifying enslaved people as “real estate” in the Virginia Act of 1705 most directly served which of the following purposes?
- Scholars who argue that race is a social construction would most likely point to which of the following as evidence?
- Which of the following best describes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
- A historian argues that debates within African American communities over names and racial labels—“colored,” “Negro,” “Black,” “African American”—reflect ongoing struggles over self-definition and political power. Which of the following most directly supports this argument?