A Nation Divided

A person who wants to end or get rid of slavery is referred to as a(n)  ______________.

• Quaker

• Conductor

• Abolitionist

• Liberator

The Religious Society of Friends, or ______________, are a Christian denomination that played a crucial role in the Underground Railroad.

• Quakers

• Conductors

• Abolitionists

• Liberators

Which of the following men devoted thirty years to abolition and was best known for his anti-slavery publication, The Liberator?

• William Still

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

Which of the following abolitionists was the editor and publisher of The North Star?

• William Still

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

The __________________ was a network of secret routes and safe houses going from slave states to free states or Canada.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Oregon Trail

• Trail of Tears

Which of the following was a well-known conductor on the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia and later published journals of the accounts of what was taking place in this network?

• William Still

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

____________________ was by far the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and was considered the “Moses” of their people.

• William Still

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed to the outbreak of the war by personalizing political and economic arguments about slavery?

• William Still

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

Which of the following acts required that law officials become responsible for capturing and returning runaway enslaved people during the mid 1800s?

• Ordinance of Nullification

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Anti-Sherman Trust Act

Popular sovereignty is the idea that ______________________________________.

• One person makes the final decision without the help of others

• People decide through elections or elected representatives

• A group of judges put forth multiple ideas and decide which one is the most popular

• None of these