Black History Quiz

Black History Quiz

9th Grade

20 Qs

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Black History Quiz

Black History Quiz

Assessment

Quiz

Life Skills

9th Grade

Hard

Created by

Veronica Richardson

FREE Resource

20 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Clint Smith initially imagine the Underground Railroad to be?

A vast network of steam engines and tunnels

A group of abolitionists working together

A metaphorical concept with no physical form

A series of safe houses across the South

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is known as the Father of the Underground Railroad?

William Still

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Tubman

Samuel Cartwright

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Underground Railroad use to describe its components?

Train infrastructure language

Maritime symbols

Agricultural metaphors

Military terminology

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did Frederick Douglass want the Underground Railroad to be perceived?

As a covert and secretive endeavor

As a government-funded project

As a myth to scare slave owners

As a public and well-known operation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the main purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?

To establish the Underground Railroad as a legal entity

To require the return of escaped slaves to their owners

To provide freedom to all escaped slaves

To abolish slavery in the northern states

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did William Still's records become?

A book known as The Underground Railroad Records

A collection of government documents

A series of newspaper articles

A novel

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What misconception did Clint Smith have about the number of people who escaped through the Underground Railroad?

He thought only a few hundred people used it

He believed millions of enslaved people escaped

He assumed it was mostly used by white abolitionists

He thought it was a failure and hardly used

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