AAS CH 5 Abolition and the Civil War

Match the following

• known for "stealing" a Confederate warship and sailing it to Union territory

• Harriet Tubman

• popular vote of the people

• Robert Smalls

• conductor on the Underground Railiroad, Union scout and spy

• David Walker

• militant abolitionist; author of Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

• Juneteenth

• holiday created in Galveston Texas to celebrate the end of slavery

• popular sovereignty

What was the goal of the abolitionist movement?

• to end slavery in the United States

• to protect slavery in the Southern states

• to move African Americans to Africa

• to increase the rights of the enslaved

Which of the following was included in the Compromise of 1850?

• Slavery was legal in California

• Slavery in the new territories would be decided by popular sovereignty

• Abolitionists were not allowed to publish newspapers

• The Fugitive Slave Act was repealed

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case?

• Congress banned slavery

• The president announced that Scott should be fired

• The Supreme Court ruled enslaved people were not citizens

• The 5th Amendment was declared unconstitutional

What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on feeling about slavery in the United States?

• It convinced many Americans that slaveholders were king and treated the enslaved well

• It led to renewed efforts to send African Americans back to Africa

• It led thousands of enslaved people to run away and seek new homes in the South

• It led many Americans to join the antislavery movement

Which abolitionists wrote a famous narrative about his time as an enslaved person in the South?

• David Walker

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Elizabeth Jennings Bryan

Why did Congress approve the enlistment of Black soldiers in 1862?

• Lincoln had freed all enslaved people

• The war had not ended quickly, and the Union needed more soldiers

• Congress feared that Blacks might serve the Confederacy

• Northerners felt Blacks and Whites were equal

The ____________ ___________banned slavery in the unorganized territory of the Louisiana Purchase.

The ​ (a)   declared slaved people in Confederate areas to be free.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Wilmot Proviso
• Dred Scott Decision

He was a militant abolitionist who led a raid against the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown