Quiz: Abolitionist movement (CCR & Honors)modified March 20231

Why was Frederick Douglass a national figure in the abolition movement?

• Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and joined a black church in the North.

• Frederick Douglass was a great orator

• Frederick Douglas traveled as a speaker with a prominent anti-slavery group.

• all of the above

Who told Harriet Beecher Stowe, " So you're the little lady who started the Civil War", meaning that her book Uncle Tom's Cabin was so popular that abolitionism grew as a result of Northerners reading the book.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• none of the above

Which 19th century abolitionist led over 300 slaves to freedom in the North.

• Harriet Beecher STowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

Why were so many slave owners afraid at the popularity of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• They were afraid slaves would want to learn how to read so they could read the novel.

• Slave owner's feared that people would feel sorry for the slaves and refuse to return runaway slaves to their masters, refuse to follow the fugitive slave act.

• They were afraid that the South would not produce good writers like Harriet Beecher Stowe.

• all of the above

Which famous abolitionist served as a nurse and even a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War.

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Angeline Grimke

Which 1850 federal law stated that runaway slaves in the North could still be captured and returned to their masters and that anyone who helped a slave escape could be fined or imprisoned.

• Liberty Laws

• Fugitive Slave law

• personal property law

• all of the above

Which movement founded in 1835 had a primary objective of ending slavery and used a massive propaganda campaign to achieve its goals?

• pro-slavery movement

• abolitionist movement

• women's suffrage movement

• all of the above

Which is true of free African Americans living in both the North and the South?

• They lived side by side with white Americans.

• They had the same rights as everyone else.

• They preferred living only with African Americans.

• They faced discrimination and racism.

How did Southern states respond to slave rebellions?

• they gave slaves freedom

• they began to understand that slavery was wrong

• they passed even stricter slave codes

• they refused to take slaves back when they were captured

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