Social Studies Quiz

A series of secret routes and safe houses

• Harriet Tubman

• Underground Railroad

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Fredrick Douglas

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

He was taught to read and write by the wife of his owner

• Fredrick Douglas

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

He was editor of an abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator

• Fredrick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

She escaped slavery and returned many times to free other slaves

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Fredrick Douglas

• Harriet Tubman

• Underground Railraod

He published an anti-slavery newspaper called the North Star

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Fredrick Douglas

He was one of the rounding members of the Anti-Slavery Society

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Fredrick Douglas

Considered by many to be the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Fredrick Douglas

Which of these was NOT an argument that the South used to defend slavery?

• African slaves were inferior to their white owners

• Slavery was needed to support the economy of the South

• Slaves were taken better care of than the free blacks in the South

• Slavery encouraged unity between Northern and Southern voters

Which of these statements about he Underground Railroad is UNTRUE?

• It helped slaves to reach freedom in the North

• The trains that they used were fairly quiet and went through many tunnels

• It was run by not only slaves, but free blacks and white abolitionists.

• Sometimes slaves traveled South to Mexico to escape slavery