Abolitionists & The Underground Railroad

Which invention contributed to the expansion of slavery in the South?

• mechanical reaper
• steam boat
• cotton gin
• interchangeable parts

What literary work did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that brought attention to the brutal conditions of slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gone With the Wind
• Up From Slavery
• North and South

What secret organization helped slaves escape to freedom?

• Seneca Falls Convention
• National Freedom Road
• Underground Railroad
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

In the 1800's, what law required Northerners to help return runaway slaves?

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dredd Scott Decision
• Fugitive Slave Law

Strong loyalty and pride to a particular region or portion of the country is called

• republicanism
• nationalism
• sectionalism
• unitarionism 

The abolitionists worked to

• give women the right to vote.
  
• grow as much cotton as possible.
  
• make slavery popular in every state.
  
• put an end to slavery.

Abolitionists believed in all of the following about slavery EXCEPT that it:

• violated the principles of democracy
• was necessary for the success of the Southern plantation
• was cruel and inhumane
• was morally wrong.

Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?

• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass 
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who was the ex-slave who worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad? 

• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth

The term, Abolitionist means...

• To aid slaveholders in capturing slaves.
• To end of slavery in the U.S. and create rights for former slaves.
• To aid slavecatchers.
• To aid how people should be treated better in the North.