Sectionalism and Slavery

What were a growing number of reformers who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States called?

• reformists

• abolitionists

• compromisers

Who was the best-known African-American abolitionist?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

What was the name of Douglass's antislavery newspaper?

• The North Star

• The Liberator

Who was the most outspoken white abolitionist?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Henry David Thoreau

• William Lloyd Garrison

What was the name of William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper?

• The North Star

• The Liberator

What was the name of the network of black and white abolitionists who secretly helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom called?

• The Path to Freedom

• The North Star

• The Underground Railroad

Who guided runaways to "stations" where they could spend the night?

• conductors

• guides

• liberators

• pathfinders

Which conductor, a former slave herself, returned to the South 19 times?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Sojourner Truth

What was the name of the novel that described the suffering of enslaved African Americans?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Liberator

• The North Star

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Mercy Otis Warren

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Beecher Stowe