WorksheetsUS History - Review: Slavery and Abolitionism
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
Who published the newspaper called The Liberator which called for the immediate, uncompensated abolishment of slavery?”
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
David Walker
He was a former slave who later published his own anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star?
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
David Walker
This proposal stated that any state acquired in the Mexican-American War could never be a slave state; however, it was voted down by Congress.
Monroe Doctrine
Wilmot Proviso
Northwest Ordinance
Fugitive Slave Act
Under this law California was admitted into the U.S. as a free state; popular sovereignty would be used to determine slavery in the Western territories; and a stronger fugitive slave law was established in the North.
Wilmot Proviso
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the name of the slave rebellion that occurred in Virginia in 1831 where approximately 160 people were killed resulting in the tightening of slave codes and the executions of the rebellion leaders?
Bacon's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Whisky Rebellion
Abolitionist Rebellion
All of the following relate to John Brown EXCEPT
Bleeding Kansas
Radical abolitionism
Harper's Ferry
The Liberator
A person who wants to end slavery was known as an
abolitionist.
sectionalist.
Jacksonian.
federalist.
Abolitionism caused many Southerners to
defend slavery and the Southern way of life.
move North.
move West.
start freeing slaves and making a fair society.
This abolitionist led hundreds of slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
David Walker
This text was instrumental in getting people to see the horrors of slavery through a fictional story that touched people emotionally
The Liberator
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The North Star
Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass
