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African American Resistance Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

2.

What was the primary purpose of the Underground Railroad?

a)

To help enslaved African Americans escape to freedom

b)

To transport goods underground

c)

To provide shelter for homeless people

d)

To establish a secret society

3.

Which state was a major hub for the Underground Railroad?

a)

New York

b)

California

c)

Texas

d)

Ohio

4.

What was the secret network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states?

a)

Subterranean Pathway

b)

Overground Highway

c)

Skyway Express

d)

Underground Railroad

5.

Who was the African American abolitionist and women's rights activist who escaped slavery and became a leading speaker and writer?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Harriet Tubman

6.

What was the name of the famous African American newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass?

a)

The South Star

b)

The East Star

c)

The West Star

d)

The North Star

7.

Who was the African American woman who helped lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Maya Angelou

8.

What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

a)

A law that granted freedom to all slaves in the United States.

b)

A law that prohibited the capture and return of runaway slaves.

c)

A law that established the Underground Railroad as a legal organization.

d)

A law that required the capture and return of runaway slaves to their owners.

9.

Who was the African American abolitionist who published an autobiography detailing his experiences as a slave?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Harriet Tubman

10.

What was the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation?

a)

The Emancipation Proclamation was a document that granted freedom to all slaves in the United States.

b)

The Emancipation Proclamation was a law that abolished slavery in the entire country.

c)

The Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in Confederate territory to be set free and shifted the focus of the Civil War to ending slavery.

d)

The Emancipation Proclamation was a treaty that ended the Civil War and established equal rights for all Americans.

11.

A Virginia Slave that had a deep religious belief that he was chosen to lead his people out of slavery.

a)

Denmark Vesey

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Amistad Mutiny

d)

Gabriel Prosser

12.

Because of his revolt the mistrust and disloyalty in the African American Society started,

a)

Nat Turner

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Gabriel Prosser

d)

Levi Coffin

13.

The only revolt that went to the Supreme Court and won.

a)

Levi Coffin

b)

Amistad

c)

Denmark Vesey

d)

Harriett Tubman

14.

The plan to send African Americans back to Africa is called

a)

Haitian Revolution

b)

slave revolts

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Colonization

15.

The period before the Civil War

a)

Slave revolt

b)

Antebellum

c)

cotton belt

d)

slave owners

16.

Why did free blacks opposed Colonization

a)

Excuse to get rid of free blacks

b)

create problems for black Americans in Africa

c)

black earned the right to live in United States

d)

All the above

17.

In 400 Souls "Negro Oyle" were used for...

a)

Hair products

b)

polish skins

c)

hid violence marks on the skin

d)

None of the above