Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass was a slave.

• True

• False

Who taught Frederick Douglass how to read?

• his mother
• Sophia Auld
• Hugh Auld
• Thomas Auld

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Frederick Douglass was taken away from his parents when he was 18 years old.

• True
• False

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Frederick Douglass was a known abolitionist. What is an abolitionist? 

• a person who wanted to end slavery.
• a person who wanted to help endangered animals.
• a person who fought for women's rights.
• a presidential candidate.

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CCSS.RL.8.9

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

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

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Where was Douglass born?

• Maryland
• Georgia
• South Carolina
• Mississippi

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Frederick Douglass was a highly regarded orator. What is an orator?

• a public speaker
• a writer
• a teacher
• role model

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CCSS.RL.8.3

Southerners thought that Africans were intellectually inferior.  What does this mean? Choose the best definition listed from those below.

• Africans were masterminds when it came to commiting crimes.
• They were not as smart as the white race.
• They were not as healthy, physically or mentally, as the white race.
• Africans were mentally insane.

Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, which meant he wanted to abolish, to end ___________________

• voting
• slavery
• the Underground Railroad

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In what year was Frederick Douglass born?

• 1603
• 1818
• 1975
• 1379