Prevalence of Slavery

Q. The thirteen American colonies gained independence from the British on .

1. 4th July 1775
2. 4th July 1776
3. 4th July 1886

Q.

Who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man on 1 December 1955?

1. Priscilla Ford

2. Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston

3. Josephine Leavell Allensworth

4. Rosa Parks

Q. Why were the Southern States of America called the slave states?

1. The Southern States were slaves of the Northern States.
2. The Southern States posed a stiff resistance to slavery.
3. Slavery was legal and it was practised in the Southern States.
4. The Southern States paid a hefty tribute to the Union.

Q. The Abolitionist Movement, which was started in 1830, was aimed at ending

1. slavery
2. the colonial rule
3. gender disparities

Q. Those who took part in the slavery abolition movement were known as _______.

1. fighters
2. abolitionists
3. anti-slavery leaders
4. free Americans

Q. When was slavery abolished in the northern states?

1. 1802
2. 1803
3. 1804
4. 1810

Q. Abolitionists advocated to repeal the ___________ Act.

1. Sustain Slavery
2. Running Slave
3. Fugitive Slave
4. New slave

Q. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel called _______.

1. Uncle Sam's Cabin
2. Uncle Tom's Diary
3. Uncle Tom's Cabin
4. Uncle Sam's diary

Q. Which of the following acts punished slaves who escaped their masters?

1. Patriot Act
2. Fugitive Slave Act
3. Slave Act
4. Deserter Act

Q. The novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, describes the _________.

1. condition of slaves
2. condition of peasants
3. condition of merchants
4. condition of old age people

Q. A large number of people migrated from _____, _____ , _____ to northern states of America.

1. India
2. Britain
3. Germany
4. Ireland

Q. In his debates against Senator Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln held the position that slavery ________.

1. should be abolished immediately in the South.
2. should be abolished in the whole United States.
3. should be abolished in California.
4. should not spread to the western territories.
5. was not an important question.

Q. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. The speaker of the above quotation is probably which of the following?

1. Jefferson Davis
2. Robert E. Lee
3. Theodore Roosevelt
4. Stephen Douglas
5. Abraham Lincoln

Q. which poem should I read of John Keats?

Q. The Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves in which of the following areas forever free?

1. All areas of the Confederacy
2. All areas of the United States
3. Confederate areas still in rebellion
4. Areas in border states loyal to the Union
5. Areas in states controlled by Union forces

Q.

What plans does anne have for her future? What does these plans say about her charecter and persomality?

Q. An "act to define and declare the rights of persons lately known as Slaves, and Free Persons of Color" refers to which law or laws passed after the Civil War?

1. the Civil Rights Act of 1875
2. Jim Crow laws
3. the Reconstruction Acts
4. the Black Codes
5. the Fourteenth Amendment

Q. What did you like from the chapter From the diary of Anne Frank and why??

Q. In the 1829 'Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World', David Walker called for _______.

1. the gradual abolition of slavery.
2. a return to Africa for all African Americans.
3. the immediate abolition of slavery and, if necessary, for slaves to kill their masters.
4. slaves to wait until the time was right to ask the U.S. government for emancipation.
5. a separate state for freed people to live in.