Drill 16 · Multiple Choice · Unit 5: Revolutions
AP World History Unit 5 Drill 16 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 5: Revolutions. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on the Haitian Revolution as the most radical of the Atlantic Revolutions, examining its causes, ideology, and global significance. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from the Haitian Declaration of Independence, proclaimed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, January 1804 CE, with substantial paraphrase.
"It is not enough to have expelled the barbarians who have bloodied our land for two centuries; it is not enough to have restrained those ever-evolving factions that one after another mocked the specter of liberty that France dangled before you. We must, by one last act of national authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take away from the inhuman government that has for a long time kept our minds in the most humiliating torpor any hope of re-enslaving us. We should recount here, for those nations who might take pity on us, the catalogue of atrocities, the crimes of the French government. Finally we must live independent or die. Independence or death — let these sacred words unite us, and let them be the signal for battle and our reunion."