Civil War and Abolitionist Movement Quiz

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A train system used during the Civil War

• A secret network helping enslaved African Americans escape to freedom

• A famous railroad built in the 19th century

• A historical site located in the southern United States

What does the term "emancipation" refer to?

• The act of voting in an election

• The process of a territory deciding its own laws

• The act of freeing someone from the control of another

• The movement to build railroads across America

Who was Frederick Douglass?

• A speaker who led the Missouri Compromise

• A president during the Civil War

• A writer who created a famous newspaper

• An abolitionist who made speeches and started an anti-slavery newspaper called "The North Star"

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• To declare war between different states

• To allow Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the balance in the U.S.

• To start the abolitionist movement

• To build a new capital city

What is "Popular Sovereignty"?

• A law that allowed all people to vote

• A doctrine that lets the people in a territory decide if they want slavery

• A movement to unite different political parties

• A type of government where a king or queen rules

an issue that is local or regional, rather that national, in nature

• sectional

• national

• worldwide

• universal

to leave or withdraw from an organization

• secede

• throw a tantrum

• abolitionist

• fugitive

a massive effort to end, or abolish, slavery in the United States

• enslavement support initiative
• abolitionist movement
• slavery preservation movement
• pro-slavery campaign

created an anti-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator"

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass

Led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Rosa Parks
• William Lloyd Garrison