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AP U.S. History — Period 5 (1844–1877) — Drill 5

Drill 5 · Multiple Choice · Period 5: 1844–1877

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AP U.S. History — Period 5 (1844–1877) — Drill 5 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 5: 1844–1877. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.

This AP U.S. History Period 5 drill is based on an adapted excerpt from Frederick Douglass's speech of July 5, 1852. Questions analyze Douglass's rhetorical strategy, his use of figurative language, and the significance of the speech as a critique of American slavery and the limits of Independence Day celebrations.

Passage

The following is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, on July 5, 1852, to the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary. The Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today? Above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them.

Questions in This Drill

  1. Douglass's decision to deliver this speech on July 5th rather than July 4th most directly reflects his intention to
  2. Douglass's reference to the 'grand illuminated temple of liberty' most directly conveys
  3. The historical context most directly relevant to understanding the urgency of Douglass's 1852 speech was
  4. Douglass's argument that enslaved people hear 'the mournful wail of millions' above the nation's 'tumultuous joy' best illustrates which of the following tensions in antebellum America?
  5. Speeches and writings like Douglass's contributed most directly to which of the following broader developments in the 1850s?