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1
According to the __________ a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding runaway slaves.
Runaway Slave Act
Southern Slave Act
Owners-Right Act
Fugitive Slave Act
2
The Free-Soil party supported ______________, which would have banned slavery in the Mexican Cession
The Stowe Proviso
The Compromise of 1850
The Missouri Compromise
The Wilmot Proviso
3
Which of these conditions does NOT correctly describe life under slavery?
Laws prohibited the education of slaves.
Slaves lived in fear of their families being separated.
Most slaveholders avoided using punishment.
Some slaveholders allowed slaves to keep gardens.
4
Which of the following correctly describes the slave culture in the Americas?
Slaves never had opportunity to express themselves in art, dance, or music
Slaves viewed religion as a refuge, boosting morale and slave hope
Since they were broken apart, families were unimportant to slave culture
they all shared the same culture and background
5
Which of the following correctly describes how African Americans participated in the abolition movement?
Some asked Congress to pass a gag rule forbidding talks of antislavery laws
They started a movement to establish colonies of freed slaves in Africa.
African Americans founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
Many former slaves wrote narratives exposing cruelties that slaves faced.
6
The largest group of whites in the South were
yeomen.
tenant farmers.
rural poor.
plantation owners.
7
The Wilmot Proviso was signed into law
False
True
8
What was Harriet Tubman's birth name?
Lucretia Mott
Araminta Ross
Harriet Ross
Harriet Beecher Stowe
9
The cotton gin helped accelerate the growth of slavery by
plowing cotton more quickly in the fields
making cotton more easy to plant
processing the cotton into cloth
removing need for slave labor to pick seeds out of cotton by hand
10
Who was the Underground Railroad conductor who returned to the South 13 times to rescue more friends & family?
Sojourner Truth
Sarah Grimké
Angelina Grimké
Harriet Tubman
11
The main goal of large plantation owners was to
enslave people.
build a larger plantation.
make a large profit.
produce more crops.
12
What inventor created the cotton gin?
James Henry Hammond
Eli Whitney
Joseph R. Anderson
David Christy
13
Harriet Beecher Stowe
opposed the institution of slavery in her writing
supported the institution of slavery in her writing
14
Levi Coffin was
a President of the Underground Railroad
a slave owner
inventor of the coffin
president of the United States
15
What was the wealthiest group in the American South?
Slaves
Yeomen
Station Masters
Planters
16
What effect did the Fugitive Slave Act have on people in the North?
Many northerners were outraged by the treatment of fugitive slaves
Many Northerners were angered and talked of seceding from the Union
All Northerners were afraid to break the law & stopped helping runaways
Northerners support the law and turn violent towards fugitive slaves
17
Who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nat Turner
18
In addition to fighting against slavery, Lucretia Mott also
helped organize the revolt
helped organize the military
helped organize the women's rights movements
helped organize the neighborhood watch
19
True or False: Being a field hand was the most common job for slaves.
False
True
20
What was the network of safe houses that assisted runaway enslaved persons?
runaway houses
Underground Railroad
slave codes
slave houses
21
What was Harriet Tubman's role on the Underground Railroad?
conductor
safehouse
stationmaster
overseer
22
Frederick Douglass used what skill to fight against slavery?
All of the above
Making speeches
Working on a railroad
Building ships
23
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
a book displaying the atrocities of slavery
A stop on the underground railroad
A slave cabin where Nat Turner's rebellion was planned
a pamphlet handed out in the South to fight slavery
24
True or False: Harriet Tubman went back to the South 19 times to free her enslaved friends and family
False
True
25
Who were the stationmasters on the Underground Railroad?
people who worked to allow women to vote
people who hid escaped slaves in their homes
people who forced slaves to work in the fields
people who guided escaped slaves to safe places
26
What was the role of the planter’s wife on a plantation?
raising cash crops and supervising field hands
raising her children and supervising household slaves
cooking meals and working alongside slaves in the fields
growing crops for her children and tending to the animals
27
Which historical figure was best known in the 1840s South as "Black Moses"
William Whipper
Stephen Myers
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
28
How did Harriet Tubman help during the Civil War?
She worked as a cook, a nurse, and a spy
She worked as a teacher, a painter, and a musician
She worked as a sailor, a writer, and a banker
She worked as a driver, a writer, and a carpenter
29
True or False: California joined the Union as a slave state
False
True
