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About This Drill
AP African American Studies: Black Organizing, Maroon Societies, and Autonomous Communities — Drill 12 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 maroon societies, free Black communities in the antebellum North, and autonomous Black organizing before the Civil War. Build AP exam prep skills on Unit 2 freedom and resistance themes.
Passage
“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us. Too long has the publick been deceived by misrepresentations, in things which concern us dearly.”
— Freedom’s Journal, inaugural editorial, March 16, 1827 — the first African American–owned and operated newspaper in the United States
Questions in This Drill
- Which of the following claims is most directly stated in the source above?
- The phrase “too long have others spoken for us” most directly reflects which of the following features of free Black political life in the antebellum period?
- Maroon societies such as the Quilombo dos Palmares in Brazil and communities in Jamaica and the Great Dismal Swamp are historically significant primarily because they
- Which of the following best explains the continuity between free Black community institutions in the antebellum North and the freedom struggles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
- The founding of Freedom’s Journal in 1827 and Frederick Douglass’s North Star in 1847 is best understood as evidence of which of the following broader patterns in antebellum Black life?