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Pop Quiz: All About the Fight to End Slavery

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1.

The first African slaves were sold to Virginia planters in this year.

1719
1769
1679
1619

2.

A person opposed to slavery and who fought to end this institution was known as a/an _______.

abolitionist
homesteader
emancipator
quaker

3.

The network that helped slaves in the South escape to freedom in the North was known as the_______

The Freedom Train
The Road North
Freedom Trail
Underground Railroad

4.

Which escaped slave is said to have made 19 trips into the South to help some 300 slaves flee to the North?

Stephen Douglas
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Uncle Tom

5.

Tom, Eva, Eliza and Simon Legree were characters in this book which did more for the Anti-Slavery movement than any other piece of writing in its time. What is the title of the book?

Grapes of Wrath
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dudley Doright
Southern Folktales

6.

A St. Louis slave who sued for his freedom after his owner died in Missouri, claiming to be a citizen of that state where slavery was banned and whose case went all the way to the supreme court was ____?

Frederick Douglass
Dred Scott
John Clay
Stephen Douglas

7.

What Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in December 1865, forever outlawed slavery throughout our nation?

12th
13th
15th
18th

8.

What was the name of the play President Lincoln was watching in Fords Theatre the evening he was murdered by John Wilkes Booth?

Richard III
The Good Neighbour
Our American Cousin
A Woman Of Means