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8th Grade Module 15 Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the Middle Passage?

a)

the voyage from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean

b)

march from inland Africa to slave forts

c)

the walkway between a slave's house and field

d)

journey from the Caribbean islands to the Mexican mainland

2.

Enslaved people expressed their beliefs in religious folk songs called

a)

hymns

b)

psalms

c)

slave codes

d)

spirituals

3.

Who was the religious leader who led a slave revolt in 1831?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Eli Whitney

4.

Which of these was an outcome of Nat Turner's Rebellion?

a)

The rebellion ended peacefully with no loss of life

b)

States adopted new slave codes that were more strict

c)

Nat Turner escaped to the North and became free

d)

The rebels were allowed to return to their plantations unpunished

5.

Which famous African American abolitionist, speaker, and writer escaped from slavery as a runaway?

a)

John Russwurm

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Samuel Cornish

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

6.

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

a)

Frderick Douglass

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Sojourner Truth

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

7.

Which of these was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act?

a)

anger in the North

b)

compromise on the slavery questions

c)

recognition of states' rights

d)

resolution of the slavery question

8.

What banned slavery in most of the northern parts of the Louisiana Purchase?

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Mexican-American War

c)

Missouri Compromise

d)

Compromise of 1850

9.

African Americans had immunity to diseases, but Native Americans did not.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Slaves were often treated well by their slave holders.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

The Grimke sisters spoke out against abolition.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

The abolitionist Sojourner Truth was given her name by her former slaveholder.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

After her own escape from slavery, Harriet Tubman returned to the South many times, helping many enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the North.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Plantation owners with many enslaved workers were considered very wealthy.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

California was a slave state.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Why did plantation owners turn to enslaved Africans as a labor force? (2 sentences)

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17.

What was the schedule like for a slave? (3 sentences)

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18.

What did the Compromise of 1850 do? Was this a win for the North, South, or neither? (3 sentences)

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