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APUSH Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery Controversy

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Crispus Attucks

d)

Nathaniel Bacon

2.

Who was the former slave who escaped and became an important spokesperson for the abolitionist and the women's rights movement?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Dorothea Dix

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

Sojourner Truth

3.

Who wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that was said to have helped paved the way towards the civil war?

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

Walt Whitman

4.

Who was the editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator" and a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society ?

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

John Peter Zenger

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Henry David Thoreau

5.

Who wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World", which called for a bloody end to white supremacy?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

David Walker

6.

Who was the American inventor who developed the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?

a)

Eli Whitney

b)

Cyrus McCormick

c)

Robert Fulton

d)

Samuel Slater

7.

A mulatto was

a)

Southerners who supported secession from the Union.

b)

A minor political party in the US.

c)

A person with one white parent and one black parent.

d)

The book that was a depiction of African-Americans under slavery.

8.

A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property is called

a)

Chattel

b)

Slave Codes

c)

Middle Passage

d)

Royal African Company

9.

The person in charge of managing slaves on a plantation is called

a)

Mulattoes

b)

Chattel

c)

Overseer

d)

Sambo

10.

Who was the leader of an 1822 failed slave revolt in Charleston ?

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Gabriel Prosser

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Denmark Vesey

11.

Who was the abolitionist and the author of the novel "American Slavery As it is"?

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Denmark Vessey

c)

Theodore Weld

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

12.

Which party was organized by anti-slavery men in the North?

a)

Republican Party

b)

Whig Party

c)

Free Soil Party

d)

Democratic-Republican Party

13.

American Colonization Society

a)

Transported over 15,000 freed blacks.

b)

Wanted to move free blacks to the African country of Liberia

c)

Was opposed by blacks who had no desire to be transported to Africa.

d)

All of the above

14.

Enslaved Africans rebelled aboard which Spanish Slave Ship?

a)

Amistad

b)

USS Constitution

c)

Lusitania

d)

CSS Virginia

15.

Which was the antislavery newspaper that proclaimed zero toleration of the practice?

a)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

b)

The Liberator

c)

American Colonization Society

d)

The Boston News-Letter

16.

What was the name of the line that separated the free territories from the slave territories?

a)

Tippecanoe and Tyler too

b)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

c)

Mason-Dixon Line

d)

Hayes Tilden Compromise

17.

Which rule was passed by pro-southern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives ?

a)

Gag Resolution

b)

Compromise of 1877

c)

Three-Fifths Compromise

d)

Connecticut Compromise

18.

Who was the former slave who was an abolitionist and give antislavery speeches?

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Frederick Douglass

19.

Cotton was King meant

a)

That the indigo crop was very valuable

b)

That the tobacco crop was very valuable

c)

That the cotton crop was very valuable

d)

That the sugar cane crop was very valuable

20.

Why did many whites who didn't own slaves support slavery?

a)

because they hoped to buy slaves and hold their riches to obtain the American Dream.

b)

because it didn't directly affect them.

c)

because they knew the practice was soon to be over

d)

because it was a lucrative business

21.

" 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?

a)

They enjoyed animal cruelty.

b)

They enjoyed hunting wolves even though it was frowned upon

c)

They knew it was wrong but the practice was so lucrative that they depended on it.

d)

They hated slavery and wanted it to end.

22.

What were the weaknesses of the south?

a)

Plantation agriculture was wasteful and despoiled the earth.

b)

Their economy was unstable.

c)

Quick profits lead to excessive cultivation and migration.

d)

all of the above

23.

How did slaves develop a separate and unique culture?

a)

They continued the practice of naming children for grandparents.

b)

They avoided marriage between first cousins.

c)

They molded their own religion from Christianity and African elements.

d)

all of the above

24.

How did the South defend itself against the attacks of abolitionists?

a)

They claimed that slavery was supported by the bible.

b)

They said it was what Christopher Columbus wanted.

c)

They paid the slaves in the end.

d)

They needed the extra hands.

25.

New York City Rebellion

a)

The rebels espoused traditional African religion.

b)

5 Bostonians were killed .

c)

Started the Civil War.

d)

Occurred in Massachusetts.

26.

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.

a)

Stono Rebellion

b)

Bacon's Rebellion

c)

Leisler's rebellion

d)

Amistad Ship Revolt

27.

A Slave planned revolt in Richmond and that was crushed with him and 25 other blacks being hung as a result

a)

Shays' Rebellion

b)

Stono Rebellion

c)

Stono Rebellion

d)

Prosser's Rebellion

28.

Who bought their freedom and planned a slave rebellion wanting to execute his enslavers and liberate Charlestown?

a)

Denmark Vesey

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Daniel Shay

29.

Who was the educated slave that led a rebellion and killed 60 whites ?

a)

Gabriel Prosser

b)

Denmark Vesey

c)

Nat Turner

d)

Daniel Shay