Week 2: Knowledge Check

How did Harriet Tubman help slaves?

• She helped injured and sick slaves hurt their masters.
• She brought food to the slaves who were starving.
• She offered the escaped slaves a place to live.
• She helped them escape through the Underground Railroad.

A person who believed in getting rid of slavery was called ______________.

• an abolitionist
• a soldier
• a civilian

Abolitionists believed in all of the following about slavery EXCEPT that it:

• violated the principles of democracy
• was necessary for the success of the Southern plantation
• was cruel and inhumane
• was morally wrong.

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this influential book that caused many in the North to become anti-slavery after reading it.

• Nat Turner's Revolt
• The Liberator
• The Bugler
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Was published by William Lloyd Garrison

• The Liberator
• The North Star
• Harper's Weekly
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

• sailor

• carpenter

• blacksmith

• slave

Frederick Douglass was friends with this U.S. president.

• Barack Obama
• George W. Bush
• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A secret network of people and hiding places to help slaves escape to freedom.
• Rights protected by people. 
• Not being controlled by someone. 
• Forced to work without pay.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What was the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• Harry Potter
• A Day in the Life of a Slave
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Harriet Tubman's Adventure

What serious problem in the U.S. led to the Civil War?

• sectionalism
• free enterprise
• patriotism 
• consumerism