Lesson 28 Practice Quiz (Abolitionist Movement)

Abolition is a term used to refer to

• An end to Mexican ownership of Texas and the southwest

• A movement to relocate (or abolish) all Native Americans from lands east of the Mississippi River

• Ending the practice of slavery in America

• Secure the right to vote for American women

The publisher of The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, was

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Henry David Thoreau

William Lloyd Garrison did all of the following EXCEPT

• get dragged through the streets of Boston

• had a bounty on his head

• burned the Constitution in protest

• run for president of the United States

All of the following were African American abolitionists EXCEPT

• Wendell Phillips

• David Walker

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

Henry Brown escaped slavery

• on the Underground Railroad.

• through manumission, the act of an owner setting a slave free.

• starting a rebellion in Raleigh, North Carolina.

• being mailed to Philadelphia in a box.

Harriet Tubman demonstrated her opposition to slavery by

• writing a magazine called The North Star.

• refusing to work for her "owner" until she was publicly beaten to death, which caused an outcry of alarm in the border state of Illinois.

• serving as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad.

• working at night to earn money so that she could buy her freedom.

President Abraham Lincoln said the following words to whom -- "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Scarlett O'Hara

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin succeeded in moving the country toward the idea of abolishing slavery because

• it shared the stories of very sympathetic characters who gave readers a better understanding of the horrors of slavery.

• it was a true story observed by the author on her trips taken with her preacher father.

• it was quoted by the president in his inaugural address.

• the essays contained in it shared the plight of real slaves in their efforts to escape to freedom in the North.

Henry Ward Beecher was

• the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and a well-known minister.

• the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and a radical abolitionist.

• the slave owner in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• a well-known congressman from Ohio, who wrote legislation against slavery, which was not passed by a majority of the House of Representatives, so it never became law.

The founder of radical abolitionism was

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• David Walker

• John Brown