8th Grade - Module 15 Test

Which of the following correctly describes the slave culture in the Americas?

• Since they were broken apart so much, families were an unimportant part of slave culture.

• Slaves viewed religion as a refuge, which gave them a sense of self-worth and hope for salvation.

• Slaves shared common cultural backgrounds and languages that they brought with them to the Americas.

• Since they had little free time, slaves had no opportunity to express themselves through art, dance, and music.

Match the following definition with one of the terms below:

an attempt to resist the slave system

• slave trade

• Stono Rebellion

• Middle Passage

• African Diaspora

Match the following definition with one of the terms below:

the journey by ship, from Africa to the Americas

• slave trade

• Stono Rebellion

• Middle Passage

• African Diaspora

Match the following definition with one of the terms below:

the sale of humans for labor

• slave trade

• Stono Rebellion

• Middle Passage

• African Diaspora

Match the following definition with one of the terms below:

the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the world.

• slave trade

• Stono Rebellion

• Middle Passage

• African Diaspora

Which of the following correctly describes how African Americans participated in the abolition movement?

• Many former slaves wrote narratives that exposed the cruelties that slaves faced.

• Many former slaves started a movement to establish colonies of freed slaves in Africa.

• Some African Americans founded the American Anti-Slavery Society to fight for immediate racial equality.

• Some African Americans convinced Congress to pass a gag rule forbidding discussion on antislavery petitions.

Which of the following correctly describes attitudes in the United States on the ending of slavery?

• The federal government supported the end of slavery and enacted a constitutional amendment stopping its expansion.

• Workers in the North opposed the end of slavery because they feared losing their jobs to newly freed African Americans.

• Business owners in the South supported the end of slavery because they believed slavery hurt the economy of the South.

• Abolitionist leaders began to oppose the end of slavery after they were threatened with violence in both the North and South.

Which of these parts of the Compromise of 1850 benefited both the North and the South?

• A new fugitive slave law was established.

• California was able to enter the Union as a free state.

• The slave trade in the District of Columbia was outlawed.

• The people in the new territories would be able to decide the issue of slavery.

What effect did the Fugitive Slave Act have on people in the North?

• Many northerners did not want to break the new law and stopped helping runaway slaves.

• Many northerners were angered by the new law and began to talk of seceding from the Union.

• Many northerners approved of the new law and became violent against the abolitionist movement.

• Many northerners were outraged by the treatment of fugitive slaves and supported the abolitionist cause.

Match the description of each abolitionist to the name of that person.

published a newspaper called the Liberator and helped to found the American Anti-Slavery Society

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison