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WorksheetsAPUSH Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in over 160 deaths and was the bloodiest rebellion prior to the American Civil War?
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
Crispus Attucks
Nathaniel Bacon
Who was the former slave who escaped and became an important spokesperson for the abolitionist and the women's rights movement?
Harriet Tubman
Dorothea Dix
Ida B. Wells
Sojourner Truth
Who wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that was said to have helped paved the way towards the civil war?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
Sojourner Truth
Walt Whitman
Who was the editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator" and a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society ?
W.E.B. Du Bois
John Peter Zenger
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World", which called for a bloody end to white supremacy?
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
David Walker
Who was the American inventor who developed the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Cyrus McCormick
Robert Fulton
Samuel Slater
A mulatto was
Southerners who supported secession from the Union.
A minor political party in the US.
A person with one white parent and one black parent.
The book that was a depiction of African-Americans under slavery.
A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property is called
Chattel
Slave Codes
Middle Passage
Royal African Company
The person in charge of managing slaves on a plantation is called
Mulattoes
Chattel
Overseer
Sambo
Who was the leader of an 1822 failed slave revolt in Charleston ?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gabriel Prosser
Nat Turner
Denmark Vesey
Who was the abolitionist and the author of the novel "American Slavery As it is"?
Nat Turner
Denmark Vessey
Theodore Weld
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which party was organized by anti-slavery men in the North?
Republican Party
Whig Party
Free Soil Party
Democratic-Republican Party
American Colonization Society
Transported over 15,000 freed blacks.
Wanted to move free blacks to the African country of Liberia
Was opposed by blacks who had no desire to be transported to Africa.
All of the above
Enslaved Africans rebelled aboard which Spanish Slave Ship?
Amistad
USS Constitution
Lusitania
CSS Virginia
Which was the antislavery newspaper that proclaimed zero toleration of the practice?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Liberator
American Colonization Society
The Boston News-Letter
What was the name of the line that separated the free territories from the slave territories?
Tippecanoe and Tyler too
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Mason-Dixon Line
Hayes Tilden Compromise
Which rule was passed by pro-southern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives ?
Gag Resolution
Compromise of 1877
Three-Fifths Compromise
Connecticut Compromise
Who was the former slave who was an abolitionist and give antislavery speeches?
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
Cotton was King meant
That the indigo crop was very valuable
That the tobacco crop was very valuable
That the cotton crop was very valuable
That the sugar cane crop was very valuable
Why did many whites who didn't own slaves support slavery?
because they hoped to buy slaves and hold their riches to obtain the American Dream.
because it didn't directly affect them.
because they knew the practice was soon to be over
because it was a lucrative business
" Having slaves was like holding a wolf by the ears, you didn't like it but you couldn't let go". What did Jefferson mean by this statement?
They enjoyed animal cruelty.
They enjoyed hunting wolves even though it was frowned upon
They knew it was wrong but the practice was so lucrative that they depended on it.
They hated slavery and wanted it to end.
What were the weaknesses of the south?
Plantation agriculture was wasteful and despoiled the earth.
Their economy was unstable.
Quick profits lead to excessive cultivation and migration.
all of the above
How did slaves develop a separate and unique culture?
They continued the practice of naming children for grandparents.
They avoided marriage between first cousins.
They molded their own religion from Christianity and African elements.
all of the above
How did the South defend itself against the attacks of abolitionists?
They claimed that slavery was supported by the bible.
They said it was what Christopher Columbus wanted.
They paid the slaves in the end.
They needed the extra hands.
New York City Rebellion
The rebels espoused traditional African religion.
5 Bostonians were killed .
Started the Civil War.
Occurred in Massachusetts.
Spain issued an edict to free all runaway slaves from British territory who made it into Spanish possession. About 20 slaves gathered under the leadership of Jemmy.
Stono Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion
Leisler's rebellion
Amistad Ship Revolt
A Slave planned revolt in Richmond and that was crushed with him and 25 other blacks being hung as a result
Shays' Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
Prosser's Rebellion
Who bought their freedom and planned a slave rebellion wanting to execute his enslavers and liberate Charlestown?
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Daniel Shay
Who was the educated slave that led a rebellion and killed 60 whites ?
Gabriel Prosser
Denmark Vesey
Nat Turner
Daniel Shay
