Slavery & Abolition

What was the legal status of slaves in the United States?

• citizen
• property
• dependents
• immigrants

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What did Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involve?

• As a freed slave, she led others to take a stand against slave owners.
• As a freed slave, she bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.

How did Southern states respond to slave rebellions?

• They gave slaves some freedom.
• They began to understand that slavery was wrong.
• They passed even stricter slave codes.
• They refused to take slaves back when they were captured.

Free African American who wrote the newspaper the North Star

• John Brown

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Fredrick Douglass

• Elijah Lovejoy

A complete end to slavery

• abolition
• abolitionist
• emancipation
• dehumanization

The first newspaper to demand the full abolition of slavery was...

• The Abolition Paper
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The Liberator
• The New York Times

Uncle Tom's Cabin portrayed slaves as

• good Christians
• evil slaveholders
• fugitive slaves
• founding fathers

John Brown believed the only way to end slavery was by...

• emancipating the slaves
• an armed slave revolt
• the South leaving the US
• sending the slaves to Africa

John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry because it was a...

• military arsenal
• slave prison
• government office
• slave plantation