SS Weekly Week 13 Abolition

1. Laws were made to keep which group of people enslaved?

• foreigners
• African Americans
• Asian Americans
• Irish Americans

2. What did William Lloyd Garrison believe in?

• emancipation only
• recolonizing Africa
• full equality for African Americans
• education and liberation

3. What did the Free Soil political party believe in?

• freeing enslaved people
• taxing plantation owners
• giving land to formerly enslaved people
• all new states should be free states

4. Who were the passengers on the Underground Railroad?

• freedom seeking enslaved people
• Quakers
• enslavers
• people from the North

5. What happened to people who were thought to be helping freedom seeing people?

• they were supported greatly with goods and money
• they were praised in the press and in public ceremonies
• they were tormented, arrested, and their property burned
• they were scorned and ridiculed

6. As a young girl, Araminta was injured by cruel people. The injuries ______________.

• healed quickly without any issues
• made her a stronger person
• bothered her for the rest of her life
• kept her enslaved all her life

7. What was Harriett Tubman connected with?

• The Pennsylvania Railroad
• The Underground Railroad
• The Freedom Railroad
• The Passage to Freedom Train

8. Why was Harriet Tubman called Moses?

• it was a code because she had a big stick.
• It was her real name.
• It was a name of the people that hid her and helped her.
• It was a nickname because she led people to freedom just like Moses.

9. How did the book Uncle Tom's cabin help abolitionists?

• It raised awareness of enslaved people's lives.
• It portrayed them as rescuers.
• It was a call to action for their cause.
• Money earned from selling the book helped slaves buy their freedom.

10. Where did Harriet Beecher Stowe live?

• a western state
• a northern state
• a southern state
• a northwest state