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WorksheetsRyan: SS Chap 8 - The Underground Railroad
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
An _______ is someone who believed that slavery should end.
abolitionist
supporter
oppressor
colonist
Safe places on the Underground Railroad were called _______.
stations
trains
routes
conductors
When many New Jerseyans objected to slavery, _______ were passed to end slavery.
laws
books
meetings
debates
The Underground Railroad was not a railroad at all. It was a way to help enslaved people _______ freedom.
escape to
fight
run away from
fall to
Sarah and Angelina Grimke were against slavery, even though their _______ was a slave owner.
father
brother
uncle
cousin
New Jersey was important to the Underground Railroad because of its location near two slave states, _______ and _______.
Delaware, Maryland
Virginia, North Carolina
Kentucky, Tennessee
Georgia, South Carolina
Boats marked with yellow and blue lights, would carry escaped slaves across the _______ River.
Delaware
Mississippi
Ohio
Hudson
Harriet Tubman held a job as a hotel worker to help support her work on the _______.
Underground Railroad
Transcontinental Railroad
Erie Canal
Pony Express
Harriet Tubman is the most notable _______ on the Underground Railroad.
conductor
passenger
engineer
operator
New Jersey, along with many other northern states, was part of the _______.
Union
Confederacy
British Empire
French Colony
The ____________ stated that all enslaved persons in the Confederacy were free.
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Underground Railroad
Pennsylvania Society
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by ________.
President Lincoln
President Jefferson Davis
President Andrew Johnson
President Ulysses S. Grant
The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to join the ________ forces. Therefore, the Union forces had many more soldiers than the ________.
Union, Confederacy
Confederacy, Union
Union, Union
Confederacy, Confederacy
President Lincoln took which of the following steps after southern states seceded from the Union?
check the THREE that are correct
Stated that the states had no right to secede
Arrested leaders from the states that seceded
Was ready to fight to keep the United States from breaking apart
Asked for volunteers to join the army and prepared for battle
Gave his famous speech, "The Gettysburg Address"
At the time, Southern leaders thought western territories should be ______ states.
slave
free
independent
underwater
Abraham Lincoln insisted that they stay ____ states.
free
slave
independent
underwater
