Slavery- People

Question 1

John Brown… Abolitionist or Southerner?

Answer 1

Abolitionist

Question 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe… Abolitionist or Southerner?

Answer 2

Abolitionist

Question 3

Harriet Tubman… Abolitionist or Southerner?

Answer 3

Abolitionist

Question 4

William Loyd Garrison… Abolitionist or Southerner?

Answer 4

Abolitionist

Question 5

Sojourner Truth… Abolitionist or Southerner?

Answer 5

Abolitionist

Question 6

Which abolitionist forced away slavery by giving the slaves weapons and encouraging them to revolt?

Answer 6

John Brown

Question 7

Who wrote stories depicting the harsh treatment of slaves although she had never been in the South?

Answer 7

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 8

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 9

When was Uncle Tom’s Cabin published?

Answer 9

1851

Question 10

Who is the ‘conductor’ of the Underground Railroad?

Answer 10

Harriet Tubman

Question 11

Which abolitionist returned to the South 19 times after she had already gained freedom to lead other slaves to the North?

Answer 11

Harriet Tubman

Question 12

Who is known as the “Voice of Abolitionism”?

Answer 12

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 13

Who wrote “The Liberator”?

Answer 13

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 14

Who seemed to be responsible for the Nat Turner Rebellion? What did he do?

Answer 14

William Lloyd Garrison- he wrote “The Liberator” because of his moral outrage of slavery

Question 15

Who did Abraham Lincoln say started the Civil War? Why?

Answer 15

Harriet Beecher Stowe because she wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” which revealed the real horrors of slavery

Question 16

Who publicly burned a copy of the Constitution? When and Why?

Answer 16

William Loyd Garrison
1854
Because it permitted slavery and said things that were not true of the country “(Every man is created equal”)

Question 17

Who was a prominent abolitionist and women’s right’s activist who is known for her speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?”

Answer 17

Sojourner Truth

Question 18

What rule did the Dred Scott Case result in?

Answer 18

No black, free or slave, could claim US citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition in court for their freedom.

Question 19

What year was the Dred Scott Case?

Answer 19

1857

Question 20

The Dred Scott Case was Dred Scott vs. _________?

Answer 20

Standford

Question 21

What did the Dred Scott Case cause?

Answer 21

Enraged abolitionists and heightened North-South tensions which would result in war 3 years later.

Question 22

What year was “The Liberator” published?

Answer 22

1831

Question 23

What was “The Liberator” about and what did it show?

Answer 23

It showed Garrison’s ceaseless, uncompromising position of the moral outrage of slavery and clarified the position of new abolitionists.

Question 24

What was the North Star and who was it written by?

Answer 24

An anti-slavery newspaper published by Fredrick Douglass

Question 25

When was the first publication of the North Star?

Answer 25

December 3, 1847

Question 26

When was the Nat Turner Rebellion?

Answer 26

1831

Question 27

What was the Nat Turner Rebellion?

Answer 27

A rebellion that spread terror throughout the South. Many whites were killed just for the fact that they were white. The only effective and sustained slave rebellion.