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Slavery and Abolition

Total questions: 8

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Belonging to the period before the Civil War

a)

gag rule

b)

antebellum

c)

abolition

d)

emancipation

2.

“Southern representatives countered in 1836 by securing the adoption of a ___________, a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue—which meant that citizens submitting petitions were deprived of their right to have them heard."

a)

gag rule

b)

emancipation

c)

antebellum

d)

abolition

3.

the movement to end or outlaw slavery

a)

antebellum

b)

gag rule

c)

emancipation

d)

abolition

4.

“Active in religious reform movements in Massachusetts, Garrison started his own paper, The Liberator, in 1831 to deliver an uncompromising message: immediate ________—the freeing of slaves, with no payment to slaveholders”

a)

abolition

b)

emancipation

c)

gag rule

d)

antebellum

5.

A free Black who wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Phyllis Wheatley

c)

David Walker

d)

Frederick Douglass

6.

Active in religious reform movements in Massachusetts, _________________ started his own paper, The Liberator, in 1831 to deliver an uncompromising message: immediate emancipation

a)

John Cotton

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

David Walker

7.

Led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831

a)

David Walker

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Nat Turner

8.

Former slave who started his own anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

William Lloyd Garrison

c)

Solomon Northrop

d)

John Hope Franklin