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What night was a good night for slaves to run away? A. Sunday. B. Saturday. C. Monday. B. 4. How many slaves did Harriet Tubman help? A. Three thousand.
The Compromise of 1850

Questions C

1. How many parts were there to the Compromise of 1850? A. Seven B. Three C. Five

A

2. What Senator argued against Clay's compromise? A. John C. Calhoun B. Millard Fillmore C. Stephen Douglass 3. How many speeches did Henry Clay give for his plan? more than seventy

C

4. How much was Texas paid to give up the land? A. Fifty million B. Twenty million C. Ten million

A

5. What was a judge paid more to do? A. Send a slave back to the South B. Free a slave 6. Where did free blacks go after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed? They went to Canada.

Harriet Tubman

Questions B

1. What year did Tubman make her first trip back south? A. 1844 B. 1851 C. 1850 2. How much of a reward was offered to capture Tubman? Forty thousand dollars

B

3. What night was a good night for slaves to run away? A. Sunday B. Saturday C. Monday

B

4. How many slaves did Harriet Tubman help? A. Three thousand B. Three hundred C. Three 5. Name two ways Harriet Tubman has been honored. A postage stamp and a park are named after her.

B

6. Who did Tubman lead north on her first trip back south? A. Her husband B. Her sister and her sister's children C. Her parents

The American Colonization Society

Questions A

1. Liberia is a word that means freedom or liberty. A. true B. false

D

2. What is an abolitionist? A. a free slave B. a politician C. a slave owner D. someone who wants to do away with slavery

B

3. Where is Liberia? A. on the east coast of the United States B. on the west coast of Africa C. in Europe D. in the Caribbean 4. What concern did abolitionists have about freeing all the slaves? Possible answer: Abolitionists were afraid that whites would not accept freed blacks into society. They thought the freed slaves would be better off in a land by themselves.

B

5. What was the name of the group that provided transportation to Africa for slaves who wanted to return? A. British Merchants Society B. American Colonization Society C. NAACP D. Home to Africa

B

6. The colonization group disbanded right after the Civil War. A. true B. false

C

7. How many former slaves were on the first ship back to Africa? A. 13,000 B. 3 C. 88 D. 22

Answer Key Thursday, February 2 Underground Railroad Image

Image Caption: Slaves traveled along the Underground Railroad, depicted in this painting CREDIT: Webber, Charles T. (reproduction of a painting in the Cincinnati Art Museum). The underground railroad." C1893. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. D

1. In what year was this painting created? A. 1793 B. 1693 C. 1993 D. 1893

A

2. Approximately how many people are in this image? A. twenty B. fifty C. seventy-five D. five

Answer Key Thursday, February 2 B

3. What is the title of the painting? A. "Charles Webber" B. "The Underground Railroad" C. "Slaves Traveling" D. "The Train Stop"

A

4. Based on this document and your knowledge of social studies, where might the slaves be heading? A. freedom B. prison C. south D. back to their owners

A

5. Who would be supportive of the Underground Railroad? A. abolitionists B. plantation owners C. slave owners D. none of the above 6. Using this document and your knowledge of social studies, explain the Underground Railroad. What was it exactly? Who were the major groups of participants? How did it work? 7. What were the fundamental differences between the North and the South during this era? 8. Describe the conditions runaway slaves would have encountered on the Underground Railroad.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Questions B

1. Which side had more factories? A. The South B. The North

A

2. Whom did Lincoln ask to lead the Union Army? A. Robert E. Lee B. Abraham Lincoln C. Jefferson Davis

C

3. Why was the railroad a disadvantage for the South? A. They had a lot of rail lines. B. It was easy to get from place to place. C. Rail lines were often not connected. 4. Why would it be harder to supply Union troops as they moved farther south? The long distance made it easier for the Confederate Army to stop the supplies.

A

5. Which side had more factories to make supplies for their army? A. The North B. The South 6. Name two advantages that the North had. More factories, a better railroad system, more people to volunteer