Amos Lawrence and the Fight Against Slavery Quiz

Match the following:

• Used his money to help abolitionists

• Abolitionist

• People angry over Anthony Burns' capture

• Anthony Burns

• Former slave who was captured in Boston

• Free State

• A state where slavery was not allowed

• Amos Lawrence

• Someone who fought against slavery

• Boston Slave Riot

What did the abolitionists raise to purchase Anthony Burns' freedom?

• $500

• $800

• $1,300

• $1,000

Where did Amos Lawrence use his family's fortune to help abolitionists?

• Kansas

• Nebraska

• Boston

• Virginia

What did Amos Lawrence want to fight against?

• Racism

• Poverty

• Slavery

• Illiteracy

Kansas became a slave state.

• True

• False