Frederick Douglass

The North Star was an _________.

• book

• magazine

• abolitionist newspaper

• journal

Frederick Douglass was a slave.

• True
• False

Frederick Douglass escaped by pretending to be a _________ and traveled north.

• sailor
• carpenter
• blacksmith
• slave

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Frederick Douglass wanted _______.

• to help slave children.
• money. 
• to be a land owner. 
• justice for slaves.

Frederick Douglass was a known abolitionist. What is an abolitionist? 

• a person who wanted to end slavery.
• a person who wanted to help endangered animals.
• a person who fought for women's rights.
• a presidential candidate.

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Choose the best answer to complete the following sentence:   Frederick Douglass is one of the most important figures in America's struggle for....

• equal pay for slaves.
• books about slavery.
•  racial equality and civil rights.
• peaceful protests.

Who does Douglass suspect is his father?

• a black slave

• his mother's slave owner

Frederick Douglass was a highly regarded orator. What is an orator?

• a public speaker
• a writer
• a teacher
• role model

Why were PRO-slavery Americans skeptical about Douglass' narrative?

• They did not believe an uneducated person wrote it.
• They felt that it had been written by abolitionists.
• They refused to believe a slave wrote such a brilliant story.
• all of the above

Southerners thought that Africans were intellectually inferior.  What does this mean? Choose the best definition listed from those below.

• Africans were masterminds when it came to commiting crimes.
• They were not as smart as the white race.
• They were not as healthy, physically or mentally, as the white race.
• Africans were mentally insane.