exam

Question 1

a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the north
and to Canada

Answer 1

underground railroad

Question 2

1850 law permitting the recapture of fugitive slaves from northern free
states

Answer 2

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 3

• homes and businesses where fugitive slaves would rest and eat

Answer 3

Stations

Question 4

people responsible for the places where fugitive slaves would hide

Answer 4

Stationmasters

Question 5

a person responsible for moving the fugitive slaves from one station to the next

Answer 5

conductor

Question 6

she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom

Answer 6

Harriet Tubman

Question 7

African Canadian village demolished by the city of Halifax

Answer 7

africville

Question 8

arrested in 1946 in New Glasgow for sitting in the “whites only” section of a
local theater.

Answer 8

viola desmond

Question 9

In 1958, he became the first black hockey player to play an NHL game

Answer 9

will o ree

Question 10

the first black and first Nova Scotian to win the Victoria Cross medal for bravery

Answer 10

william hall

Question 11

this abolitionist and former slave became the first African American
nominated for Vice President of the United States.

Answer 11

frederick douglass

Question 12

this amendment to the US Constitution in 1865 abolished slavery.

Answer 12

thirteenth

Question 13

this amendment to the US Constitution in 1868 granted citizenship to all citizens
born in the U.S. with equal protection under the law.

Answer 13

forftteenth

Question 14

this amendment to the US Constitution in 1870 declared that no citizen could be
prevented from voting based on race.

Answer 14

Fifteenth