WorksheetsSlavery in America
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
States that abolished slavery were called?
Slave States
Liberty States
Free States
Union States
Which two forms of Slave Resistance were common within Slave States?
Passive and Active Resistance
Secret and Aggressive Resistance
Which three of these actions were forms of Passive Resistance?
Working Slowly
Attacking your Master
Running Away
Being Late for Work
Pretending not to understand instructions.
Which famous African American abolitionist is pictured here?
Sojourner Truth
Margaretta Forten
Harriet Tubman
Sarah Grimke
What was the Underground Railroad?
A series of tunnels that connected the southern states of America with the north.
A secret train-line that transported escaped slaves to Canada.
A series of secret routes and networks established to transport escaped slaves to free northern states.
An underground rail system used to transport goods between American states.
The safe houses or secret meeting locations for moving slaves as part of the Underground Railroad were called...
Nests
Stops
Stations
Fox Holes
What was the name of the law passed in Southern Slave states that sought to make it a legal responsibility for all Americans to assist in the recapture of escaped slaves?
The Slave Recapture Clause
The Escapee Act
The Slave Security Act
The Fugitive Slave Act
What the name of the infamous slave responsible for the massacre that took place in South Hampton in 1831?
Frederick Douglas
Robert Smalls
Nat Turner
Henry Brown
Which religious group was associated with the Religious Society of Friends?
The Baptists
The Quakers
The Mormons
The Presbyterians
What did the American Colonisation Society seek to accomplish?
To create a colony in Africa to return free slaves.
To create a colony in the western region of America for slaves and native Americans.
To ensure free slaves had a home within America.
William Lloyd George was a southerner with strong pro-slavery views?
True
False
What was the name of the organisation founded in 1832 to directly combat pro-slavery sentiment and practices?
The North America Slave Collective
The American Anti-Slavery Society
The North American Abolition Society
The American Colonisation Society
Which former slave, turned abolitionist is pictured here?
David Walker
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Robert Smalls
In what year did the outbreak of the American Civil War occur?
1776
1865
1861
1850
By 1860, what proportion of the southern population was made up of enslaved people?
1/2
2/5
1/3
