SW: Week 13 Assessment

1. Laws were made to keep which population enslaved?

• A. foreigners
• B. African Americans
• C. Asian Americans
• D. Irish Americans

2. William Lloyd Garrison believed in ______________.

• A. emancipation only
• B. relocating enslaved people to Africa
• C. full equality for African Americans
• D. supporting enslavement

3. Who were “passengers” on the Underground Railroad?

• A. freedom-seeking enslaved people
• B. Quakers
• C. enslavers
• D. people from the North

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

• A. imprisonment
• B. losing all their possessions
• C. severe punishment or death
• D. being sold to another plantation

5. People who were thought to be helping freedom-seeking people were __________.

• A. supported with goods and money
• B. praised in the press and in public ceremonies
• C. tormented, arrested, and their property burned
• D. scorned and ridiculed

6. Why was Harriet Tubman called Moses?

• A. It was a code from the Underground Railroad.
• B. It was a disguise name.
• C. It was a family name.
• D. It was a nickname because she, like Moses, led people to freedom.

7. Uncle Tom was the central character in the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He was ______________.

• A. an abolitionist
• B. an enslaved man
• C. a free man
• D. an enslaver

8. What was one reason freedom seekers were asked to change their names?

• A. to honor their parents
• B. to confuse slave hunters
• C. to get a new passport
• D. to protect the Underground Railroad

9. What did the American Colonization Society (ACS) want for African Americans?

• A. full freedom and citizenship
• B. larger roles in economics and trade
• C. send them to Africa to live
• D. continued enslavement

10. What was the code name on the Underground Railroad for a guide who helped runaway enslaved people?

• A. station master
• B. conductor
• C. agent
• D. passenger