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Short Quiz / Exit Slip: The Antebellum Era (1781-1860): Slavery Divides the Nation Part 1
Part A: Multiple Choice: Instructions: Choose the option that answers the questions below.
1. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. Harriet Tubman
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Susan B. Anthony
2. Which option below explains how William Lloyd Garrison influenced the abolitionist movement?
a. He helped Nat Turner initiate a successful slave rebellion.
b. He helped Frederick Douglas escape slavery.
c. He trained conductors on how to use the Underground Railroad.
d. He helped the ideas of the Abolitionist movement spread through print.
3. How did many white slave owners respond to Nat Turner’s slave rebellion?
a. They finally saw how cruel and wicked slavery was and set many slaves free.
b. They set Nat Turner free simply to remove him from causing another slave rebellion.
c. They used the incident as propaganda against the abolitionist movement.
d. They agreed to allocate land to the slaves for a commitment to not pursue rebellion in the future.
4. Which option below explains the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe on the abolitionist movement?
a. She got Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
b. She strongly asserted that violence was needed to end slavery.
c. She provoked the emotions of many people to have compassion for slaves.
d. All of the above.
5. Which movement is Elizabeth Cady Stanton most associated with?
a. The movement of to encourage the South to leave the USA
b. The movement of Farmers’ Rights
c. The movement of Women’s Rights
d. The movement to abolish the Articles of Confederation.
Part B: Short Answer: Instructions: Answer the question below.
1. What was the Abolitionist Movement? Who were some important people in the movement?
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Answers:
Part A: Multiple Choice: Instructions: Choose the option that answers the questions below.
1. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. Harriet Tubman
c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d. Susan B. Anthony
2. Which option below explains how William Lloyd Garrison influenced the abolitionist movement?
a. He helped Nat Turner initiate a successful slave rebellion.
b. He helped Frederick Douglas escape slavery.
c. He trained conductors on how to use the Underground Railroad.
d. He helped the ideas of the Abolitionist movement spread through print.
3. How did many white slave owners respond to Nat Turner’s slave rebellion?
a. They finally saw how cruel and wicked slavery was and set many slaves free.
b. They set Nat Turner free simply to remove him from causing another slave rebellion.
c. They used the incident as propaganda against the abolitionist movement.
d. They agreed to allocate land to the slaves for a commitment to not pursue rebellion in the future.
4. Which option below explains the impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe on the abolitionist movement?
a. She got Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
b. She strongly asserted that violence was needed to end slavery.
c. She provoked the emotions of many people to have compassion for slaves.
d. All of the above.
5. Which movement is Elizabeth Cady Stanton most associated with?
a. The movement of to encourage the South to leave the USA
b. The movement of Farmers’ Rights
c. The movement of Women’s Rights
d. The movement to abolish the Articles of Confederation.
Part B: Short Answer: Instructions: Answer the question below.
1. What was the Abolitionist Movement? Who were some important people in the movement?
The Abolitionist movement was the movement to end African slavery. There were many important
people in this movement. William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator as a newspaper against
slavery. Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave who began to speak out and demand an end to
slavery. Harriet Tubman, a former slave, served as a “conductor” taking slaves on the path of the
Underground Railroad. Also in this time, helping the abolitionist cause, Harriet Beecher Stowe
published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. It exposed the evils of slavery and provoked an emotional
outcry against the practice.
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