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Ryan: SS Chap 8 - The Underground Railroad

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An _______ is someone who believed that slavery should end.

a)

abolitionist

b)

supporter

c)

oppressor

d)

colonist

2.

Safe places on the Underground Railroad were called _______.

a)

stations

b)

trains

c)

routes

d)

conductors

3.

When many New Jerseyans objected to slavery, _______ were passed to end slavery.

a)

laws

b)

books

c)

meetings

d)

debates

4.

The Underground Railroad was not a railroad at all. It was a way to help enslaved people _______ freedom.

a)

escape to

b)

fight

c)

run away from

d)

fall to

5.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were against slavery, even though their _______ was a slave owner.

a)

father

b)

brother

c)

uncle

d)

cousin

6.

New Jersey was important to the Underground Railroad because of its location near two slave states, _______ and _______.

a)

Delaware, Maryland

b)

Virginia, North Carolina

c)

Kentucky, Tennessee

d)

Georgia, South Carolina

7.

Boats marked with yellow and blue lights, would carry escaped slaves across the _______ River.

a)

Delaware

b)

Mississippi

c)

Ohio

d)

Hudson

8.

Harriet Tubman held a job as a hotel worker to help support her work on the _______.

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Transcontinental Railroad

c)

Erie Canal

d)

Pony Express

9.

Harriet Tubman is the most notable _______ on the Underground Railroad.

a)

conductor

b)

passenger

c)

engineer

d)

operator

10.

New Jersey, along with many other northern states, was part of the _______.

a)

Union

b)

Confederacy

c)

British Empire

d)

French Colony

11.

The ____________ stated that all enslaved persons in the Confederacy were free.

a)

Emancipation Proclamation

b)

Gettysburg

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

Pennsylvania Society

12.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by ________.

a)

President Lincoln

b)

President Jefferson Davis

c)

President Andrew Johnson

d)

President Ulysses S. Grant

13.

The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to join the ________ forces. Therefore, the Union forces had many more soldiers than the ________.

a)

Union, Confederacy

b)

Confederacy, Union

c)

Union, Union

d)

Confederacy, Confederacy

14.

President Lincoln took which of the following steps after southern states seceded from the Union?

check the THREE that are correct

a)

Stated that the states had no right to secede

b)

Arrested leaders from the states that seceded

c)

Was ready to fight to keep the United States from breaking apart

d)

Asked for volunteers to join the army and prepared for battle

e)

Gave his famous speech, "The Gettysburg Address"

15.

At the time, Southern leaders thought western territories should be ______ states.

a)

slave

b)

free

c)

independent

d)

underwater

16.

Abraham Lincoln insisted that they stay ____ states.

a)

free

b)

slave

c)

independent

d)

underwater