From Frederick Douglass Quiz

Why did Douglass have a variety of odd jobs?

• He was not skilled to do any jobs.

• Many white people would not hire them

  for jobs.

• Many white people did not have enough jobs.

• That was just how he liked it.

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Why was Frederick Douglass’s autobiography important?

• It told of the horrors of slavery.

• It gave names of his former owners.

• It described how he had become free

• It told about the battles of the Civil War.

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Why did Frederick Douglass travel to Europe?

• He wanted to help free enslaved people there.

• He had always dreamed of traveling the world.

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  He had escaped slavery and was afraid of being captured.

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  He wanted to see what it would be like to live without slavery.

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Which abolitionist was most famous for helping enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad?

• 
  John Brown

• 
  Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• 
  William Lloyd Garrison

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Why did Frederick Douglass meet with President Abraham Lincoln?

• 
  to ask for a job in the government

• 
  to convince him to end the Civil War

• 
  to ask for equal pay for Black soldiers

• to share information about life as a slave

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According to the timeline, when did the 13th Amendment abolish slavery?

• 1817

• 1838

• 1845

• 1865

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What is a biography?

• A poem with lines and stanzas.

• A story about fantasy characters.

• A story about a real place.

• A story about a real person's life.

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Which sentence supports the idea that people in the North wanted to end slavery?

• Finally,

  the Civil War broke out between the North and

  the South in 1861.

• However,

  plantation owners in the southern states did not

  want to give up their source of free labor.

• Many people in

  the northern states wanted abolition.

• In the 1850s, the national debate over slavery

  became more and more heated.

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When did Frederick Douglass delivered

one of the best-known speeches of his career?

• October 1859

• On July 5, 1852

• December 3, 1847

• May 1865

Why did Douglass

decide to start his own abolitionist newspaper?

• To share his beliefs about equal rights and the abolitionist movement.

• To tell on his owners.

• It was his dream to be a writer.

• To write about the time he went to Europe.

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