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WorksheetsAAS: The Early Republic & Antebellum Era
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
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?
Anti-slavery societies
AME Churches
Mutual aid/benevolent societies
HBCUs
The freedom of free blacks was limited in all of the following ways: (check all that apply)
Black laws
Disenfranchisement
Segregation
Vigilance Associations
What does the Constitution say about slavery?
The 3/5ths clause states that enslaved people will count as 3/5ths of a person towards a population count.
It states that the slave trade will be legal for 20 more years
Both A & B
None of the above
What was the first black school entirely administered and taught by blacks for black children?
Mother Bethel
Lincoln University
St. Augustine School
Quaker School
Check off all of the following that contributed to the expansion of slavery:
The cost of enslaved people went down
Cheap land and expansion of territory
The invention of the cotton gin leading to the cotton boom
Declining revolutionary passion and intensified racism
Which of the following was a consequence of slave revolts?
Slave codes became harsher
Whites used rebellions to justify the belief that blacks and whites cannot live together in peace
Both A & B
None of the above
Withholding information, faking ignorance, telling folktales with messages, and religion are all:
Examples of methods enslaved people used to survive slavery
Ways in which whites would dehumanize enslaved people
Both A & B
None of the above
What is abolitionism?
The movement for women’s suffrage
The movement for black, male suffrage
The movement to end slavery
The movement to keep slavery
Which of the following was the most significant interracial, abolitionist organization, started by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists?
The American Colonization Society
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
American Anti-Slavery Society
The Liberty Party
What white organization created the colony of Liberia in Africa in order to send free blacks?
The American Anti-Slavery Society
The American Colonization Society
The Quakers
None of the above
Who created the first African American newspaper called Freedom’s Journal in New York City in 1827?
James Forten
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Samuel Cornish
Who was a prominent, white, abolitionist who helped create the AASS and started his own abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator?
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Ben Franklin
Who wrote The Appeal and aggressively encouraged enslaved people to use violence and gain their freedom?
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
James Forten
Prince Hall
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?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Maria Stewart
Altheia Tanner
What do we call the strategy used by the AASS which called for Americans to oppose slavery based on their Christian conscience?
Moral Suasion
Black Militancy
Colonization Movement
Social Darwinism
What is the approach that calls for more forceful action against slavery?
Moral Suasion
Black Militancy
Colonization Movement
Social Darwinism
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
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Maria Stewart
Altheia Tanner
What do we call the organized escape routes from the Chesapeake, Kentucky, and Missouri to the North and Canada by different organizations?
I-10
The Underground Railroad
The Trail of Tears
The Middle Passage
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.
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
James Forten
Prince Hall
Who was a free black, wealthy businessman from Philadelphia who started the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society?
David Walker
Frederick Douglass
James Forten
Prince Hall
