Unit 7 Quiz

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What did Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involve?

• As a freed slave, she led others to take a stand against slave owners.
• As a freed slave, she bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.

Which of these best describes the Underground Railroad?

• a series of tunnels used to move slaves to free states
• people who secretly helped slaves escape to the North
• transportation system that moved slaves to freedom at night
• people who caught fugitive slaves and returned them to owners

What is racism?

• The belief that one race is superior to another.
• Easily seen or understood.
• Not active.
• The social separation of groups of people especially by race.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

How did cotton relate to slavery?

• The desire to grow cotton led to increased slavery

• It did not relate to slavery

• All slaves were required to grow cotton

• Cotton was traded for slaves in Africa

What is the middle passage?

• the trip from Africa to the Americas

• the trip from England to Africa

• the trip from Africa to England

• the trip from England to the Americas

Why would a slave be branded?

• To hurt them
• To stop them running away
• To show who he belongs to
• To identify were they came from

Which word means, "an exaggerated loyalty to a particular part of the country?"

• Sectionalism
• Regionalism
• Subjectism
• Surrealism

An "Abolitionist..."

• wants to get rid of alcohol
• wants equality
• wants to eliminate slavery
• fights for better education