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AAS: The Early Republic & Antebellum Era

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the earliest black community institutions that would provide members with medical and burial expenses, and help support the widows and children of its members?

a)

Anti-slavery societies

b)

AME Churches

c)

Mutual aid/benevolent societies

d)

HBCUs

2.

The freedom of free blacks was limited in all of the following ways: (check all that apply)

a)

Black laws

b)

Disenfranchisement

c)

Segregation

d)

Vigilance Associations

3.

What does the Constitution say about slavery?

a)

The 3/5ths clause states that enslaved people will count as 3/5ths of a person towards a population count.

b)

It states that the slave trade will be legal for 20 more years

c)

Both A & B

d)

None of the above

4.

What was the first black school entirely administered and taught by blacks for black children?

a)

Mother Bethel

b)

Lincoln University

c)

St. Augustine School

d)

Quaker School

5.

Check off all of the following that contributed to the expansion of slavery:

a)

The cost of enslaved people went down

b)

Cheap land and expansion of territory

c)

The invention of the cotton gin leading to the cotton boom

d)

Declining revolutionary passion and intensified racism

6.

Which of the following was a consequence of slave revolts?

a)

Slave codes became harsher

b)

Whites used rebellions to justify the belief that blacks and whites cannot live together in peace

c)

Both A & B

d)

None of the above

7.

Withholding information, faking ignorance, telling folktales with messages, and religion are all:

a)

Examples of methods enslaved people used to survive slavery

b)

Ways in which whites would dehumanize enslaved people

c)

Both A & B

d)

None of the above

8.

What is abolitionism?

a)

The movement for women’s suffrage

b)

The movement for black, male suffrage

c)

The movement to end slavery

d)

The movement to keep slavery

9.

Which of the following was the most significant interracial, abolitionist organization, started by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists?

a)

The American Colonization Society

b)

Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society

c)

American Anti-Slavery Society

d)

The Liberty Party

10.

What white organization created the colony of Liberia in Africa in order to send free blacks?

a)

The American Anti-Slavery Society

b)

The American Colonization Society

c)

The Quakers

d)

None of the above

11.

Who created the first African American newspaper called Freedom’s Journal in New York City in 1827?

a)

James Forten

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Samuel Cornish

12.

Who was a prominent, white, abolitionist who helped create the AASS and started his own abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?

a)

David Walker

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Ben Franklin

13.

Who wrote The Appeal and aggressively encouraged enslaved people to use violence and gain their freedom?

a)

David Walker

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

James Forten

d)

Prince Hall

14.

Who was born enslaved as Isabella Baumfree, escaped to an anti-slavery family who purchased her freedom, and then became a preacher, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Maria Stewart

d)

Altheia Tanner

15.

What do we call the strategy used by the AASS which called for Americans to oppose slavery based on their Christian conscience?

a)

Moral Suasion

b)

Black Militancy

c)

Colonization Movement

d)

Social Darwinism

16.

What is the approach that calls for more forceful action against slavery?

a)

Moral Suasion

b)

Black Militancy

c)

Colonization Movement

d)

Social Darwinism

17.

Who was born enslaved in Maryland, but escaped and then went back 13 times? She was the most active conductor on the Eastern branch of the Underground Railroad

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Maria Stewart

d)

Altheia Tanner

18.

What do we call the organized escape routes from the Chesapeake, Kentucky, and Missouri to the North and Canada by different organizations?

a)

I-10

b)

The Underground Railroad

c)

The Trail of Tears

d)

The Middle Passage

19.

Who was born enslaved in Maryland, learned to read, and then escaped. He became one of the most famous orators and abolitionists. He wrote an autobiography.

a)

David Walker

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

James Forten

d)

Prince Hall

20.

Who was a free black, wealthy businessman from Philadelphia who started the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society?

a)

David Walker

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

James Forten

d)

Prince Hall