Abolition - Week 26 Assessment

Laws were made to keep who enslaved?

• foreigners

• African Americans

• Asian Americans

• Irish Americans

William Lloyd Garrison believed in ___________.

• emancipation only

• relocating enslaved people to Africa

• full equality for African Americans

• supporting slavery

Who were “passengers” on the Underground Railroad?

• freedom-seeking enslaved people

• Quakers

• enslavers

• people from the North

What would happen if an enslaved person got caught running away?

• imprisonment

• losing all their possessions

• severe punishment or death

• being sold to another plantation

People who were thought to be helping freedom-seeking people were ___________.

• supported greatly with goods and money

• praised in the press and in public ceremonies

• tormented, arrested, and their property burned

• scorned and ridiculed

Why was Harriet Tubman called Moses?

• It was a code from the Underground Railroad.

• It was a disguise name.

• It was a family name.

• It was for leading people to freedom.

Uncle Tom was the central character in the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He was ___________.

• an abolitionist

• an enslaved man

• a free man

• an enslaver

What was a reason a freedom seeker was asked to change their name?

• to honor their parents

• to confuse slave hunters

• to get a new passport

• to protect the Underground Railroad

Where did William Still work?

• Mississippi Society for the Abolition of Slavery

• The American Slave Society

• Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery

• American Anti-Slavery Society

An enslaved person knew “north” met freedom.

• True

• False