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US History - Review: Slavery and Abolitionism

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who published the newspaper called The Liberator which called for the immediate, uncompensated abolishment of slavery?”

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

David Walker

2.

He was a former slave who later published his own anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star?

a)

William Lloyd Garrison

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

David Walker

3.

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.

a)

Monroe Doctrine

b)

Wilmot Proviso

c)

Northwest Ordinance

d)

Fugitive Slave Act

4.

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.

a)

Wilmot Proviso

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

5.

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?

a)

Bacon's Rebellion

b)

Nat Turner's Rebellion

c)

Whisky Rebellion

d)

Abolitionist Rebellion

6.

All of the following relate to John Brown EXCEPT

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Radical abolitionism

c)

Harper's Ferry

d)

The Liberator

7.

A person who wants to end slavery was known as an

a)

abolitionist.

b)

sectionalist.

c)

Jacksonian.

d)

federalist.

8.

Abolitionism caused many Southerners to

a)

defend slavery and the Southern way of life.

b)

move North.

c)

move West.

d)

start freeing slaves and making a fair society.

9.

This abolitionist led hundreds of slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

David Walker

10.

This text was instrumental in getting people to see the horrors of slavery through a fictional story that touched people emotionally

a)

The Liberator

b)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

c)

The North Star

d)

Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass