Week 24 Social Studies

Laws were made to keep which group of people enslaved?

• foreigners
• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Irish Americans

How did William Lloyd Garrison share his beliefs about equality?

• He taught at a school.
• He ran for public office.
• He started an anti-slavery newspaper.
• He started the Religious Society of Friends.

What did the Free Soil political party believe?

• freeing enslaved people
• that new territories and states should be free
• civil disobedience
• enforcing plantation laws

Who were the “passengers” on the Underground Railroad?

• freedom-seeking enslaved people
• Quakers
• enslavers
• people from the North

What would happen if an enslaved person got caught running away?

• imprisonment
• losing all of their possessions
• severe punishment or death
• being sold to another plantation

What happened to people who were thought to be helping freedom-seeking people?

• They were supported greatly with goods and money.
• They were praised in the press and in public ceremonies.
• They were tormented, arrested, and their property burned.
• They were scorned and ridiculed.

What happened to Araminta Harriet Ross in 1844?

• She was injured by cruel people.
• She married a free man.
• She started the Underground Railroad.
• She ran north.

How many people escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad thanks to Harriet Tubman?

• 19
• 83
• 45
• about 70

Why was Tubman called Moses?

• It was a code from the railroad.
• It was a disguise name.
• It was a family name.
• It was for leading people to freedom.

How did Uncle Tom’s Cabin help abolitionists?

• It raised awareness of enslaved peoples’ lives.
• It portrayed them as rescuers in the book.
• It was a call to action for their cause.
• All profits went to their treasury.