Chapter 4 Social Studies

What is an abolitionist?

• someone who wanted to end slavery

• someone who wanted slavery to continue

• someone who did not care about slavery

• someone who was once a slave

A large farm where usually a single crop, such as cotton, is grown?

• plantation

• proclamation

• abolitionist

• farm

True or False: A proclamation is an official public announcement

• True

• False

True or False: Reconstruction is the period before the Civil War when the South was rebuilt.

• True

• False

True or False: The Underground Railroad is a system of secret routes to help slaves escape from the South.

• True

• False

What did Harriet Tubman do?

• enlist in the army

• register to vote

• helped over 300 slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

• got caught on the Underground Railroad and went back to her owner

True or False: There were more slaves in the South because they had plantations that used slave laborers.

• True

• False

Why was NJ an important location on the Underground Railroad?

• It was close to the slave states of Maryland and Delaware

• It had many African American communities

• It had many routes on the Underground Railroad that went through it

• all of the above

What year did the Civil War start?

• 1840

• 1850

• 1860

• 1870

True or False: New Jersey was part of the Union (North).

• True

• False