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Underground Rail Road Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Was The Underground Rail Road?

a)

A Rail Road

b)

A Secret Passage Way

c)

All of them

d)

None of them

2.

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

a)

Uncle Tom

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

William Stowe

3.

Who was Harriet Tubman?

a)

A slave catcher

b)

A slave onwner

c)

A conductor

d)

None of the above

4.

How many trips did Harriet Tubman make?

a)

3

b)

20

c)

19

d)

22

e)

None of the above

5.

How many slaves did Harriet Tubman free?

a)

200

b)

205

c)

100

d)

300

e)

506

6.

The ___________ allowed slavery but the _____________ did not

a)

East, West

b)

North, South

c)

South, North

d)

South, West

7.

The Fugitive Slave Act Happened In

a)

1840

b)

1345

c)

1280

d)

1850

e)

1968

8.

______________ were usually already Freed slaves and helped the ones escaping

a)

Abolitions

b)

Slaves

c)

Slave catchers

d)

Masters

e)

Harriet Tubman

9.

True or False Sojourner Truth changed her name

a)

True

b)

False

10.

True or false The Fugitive Slave act was in 1860

a)

True

b)

False

11.

True or False Harreit Becher Stowe Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

a)

True

b)

False

12.

There were _______ slave states and ________ free states

a)

16,18

b)

11, 20

c)

15, 17

d)

14, 15

e)

None of the above

13.

Slaves traveled by __________________.

a)

Boats

b)

Wagons

c)

On foot

d)

All of the above

14.

Slaves usually traveled during the _______________.

a)

Night

b)

Day

15.

Witch slave shipped himself to freedom?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

William Stowe

c)

Henry Brown

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

e)

None of the above

16.
People who helped slaves, took the chance of being arrested and jailed if they were caught. 
a)
True
b)
False
17.

The Underground Railroad began in the _____ and traveled into the _____.

a)

North, South

b)

South, North

18.
True or False:
Slaves escaped to Canada using the Underground Railroad.
a)
True
b)
False