Deck 8: Opposition to Slavery

Question 1

What Protestant denomination is credited with beginning the antislavery movement in the North?

A) Methodist
B) Quaker
C) Baptist
D) Episcopalian

Answer 1

Quaker

Question 2

How did African Americans participate in the antislavery movement in the early nineteenth century?

A) They assisted secretly in the South, and helped in direct action in the North.
B) They controlled the large antislavery societies in the North, although whites joined.
C) They led and organized societies in the Upper South.
D) Because of the prevalence of racism, they were not allowed to help at all.

Answer 2

They assisted secretly in the South, and helped in direct action in the North.

Question 3

Which of the following is true about the Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery?

A) It was the first antislavery society in the North.
B) It was the first antislavery society in the South.
C) It attracted non-Quaker members.
D) It attracted well over one million members across the United States.

Answer 3

It attracted non-Quaker members.

Question 4

What was true about the Whig Party during the 1820s and 1830s?

A) The Whigs attracted people who favored a more liberal social policy, mainly because the Democrats pushed them away.
B) The Whigs failed to attract evangelical Christians, who were more interested in maintaining slavery.
C) The Whigs favored the abolition of slavery.
D) The Whig Party was completely ineffectual, and felt that the freemasons were trying to take over America.

Question 5

What was an effect of Gabriel's Conspiracy in 1800?

A) White southerners only blamed southern slaves for instigating revolt.
B) White southerners began to think that a race war was possible in the South.
C) Because the rebellion had been unsuccessful, whites thought their protection against slave revolt was adequate.
D) White southerners decided that it was time to loosen the restrictions on slaves.

Question 6

What was a result of Vesey's Conspiracy?

A) Blacks demonstrated they could stand united against whites.
B) South Carolina decided to decrease some restrictions on slaves in cities, since they did not participate.
C) The state legislature passed laws forbidding slaves to read, banning their assembly, and jailing black sailors while their ships were docked.
D) Vesey was deported to Haiti, with several of his conspirators.

Question 7

What important message did Charles Finney preach during the Second Great Awakening?

A) Blacks should be enslaved, because God wanted that.
B) Blacks should be able to vote and be the social equals of whites.
C) All men and women (no matter their race or class) could be saved by God.
D) Charles Finney was not allowed to preach because he was a black man.

Question 8

Who initially supported the American Colonization Society?

A) all northern whites
B) some upper South slaveholders
C) some atheists who had formed an antislavery group
D) several former presidents, including James Madison

Question 9

What role did white southerners think that free blacks played in slave revolts?

A) White southerners thought that free blacks were incapable of independent thought, and therefore would not have a role in revolts.
B) White southerners thought that free blacks were an extremely dangerous element, and responsible for inciting slaves to rebellion.
C) White southerners mainly thought that foreigners, not free blacks, had the main role in slave revolts.
D) White southerners thought that free blacks played a minimal role, since they realized that slaves were unhappy in slavery and would try to get out of it.

Question 10

Which of the following is not true of the Democratic Party during the 1820s and 1830s?

A) They claimed to represent everyday Americans.
B) They represented the interests of slaveholders.
C) They were formed because Andrew Jackson thought he had been cheated out of the presidency in 1824.
D) .They wanted to greatly expand the size of the United States, an attitude called "Manifest Destiny."

Question 11

What is true of the Second Great Awakening?

A) It was a revival of religious interest, where ordinary blacks and whites played a large role.
B) The Second Great Awakening refers to the development of two parties in America.
C) It was a religious revival, but had very few consequences outside of churches in the South.
D) It occurred during the 1730s and 1740s.

Question 12

What is a term used for people who favored getting rid of slavery throughout the country?

Question 13

What were the goals of the American Colonization Society?

A) to have all of the territories of the United States be free
B) the immediate emancipation of all slaves
C) to gradually free slaves, through purchasing them and sending them to Africa
D) to colonize a blacks-only state in the western United States

Question 14

Which of the following statements best represents the Democratic Party's ideas about slavery?

A) The Democrats were the early abolitionists, seeking to destroy slavery where they could.
B) The Democrats sought to make property rights absolute, especially with slaves.
C) The Democrats wanted to keep slavery where it existed already, but were not enthusiastic about expanding it.
D) The Democrats hated slavery, but generally lacked the backbone to confront southerners about it.

Question 15

Which of the following is true about the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy in 1822?

A) It led to Quakers and their abolitionist societies having a greater influence.
B) It was put down after the blacks had killed 100 whites and burned several blocks of Charleston.
C) It reinforced white beliefs that the free black population was a dangerous influence.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 16

Who was the most prominent black advocate of black migration to Africa during the early 1800s?

Question 17

What was "practical Christianity"?

A) Blacks could only be "practical" Christians because they were not allowed to be members of the churches.
B) Christians had to be as practical as possible, and that meant accepting slavery in the South.
C) Some white southerners were called "practical Christians" because they never lived up to the ideals of their faith.
D) Those who were saved had to help others as a part of their faith.

Question 18

What attitude characterized American politics during the Jacksonian Era?

A) openness to new ideas and thoughts
B) paranoia, fear of conspiracies
C) a desire to establish equal rights for blacks
D) a desire to increase the scope of the United States

Question 19

What was a difference between Gabriel's Rebellion and Vesey's Rebellion?

A) Only Gabriel's was influenced by the French and Haitian Revolutions.
B) Vesey included more elements of religion in his plot.
C) Vesey was a slave, and Gabriel was a free man.
D) Gabriel's Conspiracy was successful.

Question 20

What were the limitations of the early antislavery movement?

A) Blacks and whites worked in the same organization, but often could not agree on goals.
B) White abolitionists did not think that blacks should have equal rights.
C) Most did little to abolish slavery in the South.
D) They were generally only working for the gradual ending of slavery.

Question 21

What beliefs did William Lloyd Garrison hold about slavery?

A) As a black man, he felt that slavery was not economically practical, and would die out of its own accord.
B) He thought that gradually abolishing slavery was immoral and impractical.
C) He thought that the highest position a black man should hold would be that of a slave.
D) He thought that slavery should not be extended to any new territory, but could continue where it was.

Question 22

Why did some blacks endorse returning to Africa?

A) They wanted to bring Christianity to that continent.
B) They felt that Africa offered a better form of democracy.
C) They wanted to experience the culture of their ancestors, considered better than American society.
D) They agreed that Africa offered better living conditions.

Question 23

How did William Lloyd Garrison change the nature of the antislavery movement?

A) He attempted to exclude women from the antislavery movement.
B) He thought that whites should play the main role, and refused to allow any black membership in his organization.
C) He called for the immediate abolition of slavery, along with a commitment to racial justice.
D) He called for violent uprisings and the murder of slaveholders.

Question 24

Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?

Question 25

What famous antislavery newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison begin publishing in 1831?

Question 26

Which of the following is not a correct statement about the effort to colonize free African Americans?

A) The rate of colonization was far too low to be effective, not even keeping up with the increase in the slave population.
B) American blacks found the cultures of their new lands very different, and often didn't adapt.
C) All blacks supported colonization, and looked forward to moving to Africa.
D) Colonization occurred in Africa and Haiti..

Question 27

Why did some blacks begin to oppose colonization?

A) They had no money to go to Africa.
B) They felt that they were Americans and entitled to all the rights of white people.
C) They recognized that it was only supported by whites, who wanted to get rid of them.
D) No blacks wanted to go to Africa, since they thought it was a horrible, disease-ridden place.

Question 28

Most women who opposed slavery did not have the status or education of women like Forten and Stewart. What did these women do in the abolitionist movement?

A) Very little. They had no opportunity to oppose slavery in public.
B) They could harbor fugitives or even buy relatives.
C) They could write letters to the editors of their newspapers expressing their views.
D) Some women could vote against pro-slavery politicians.

Question 29

What was one way women could enter the public sphere in nineteenth-century America?

A) through church and benevolent society activities
B) through running for public office
C) through speaking in public on whatever subject they wished
D) through secretly distributing books on politics

Question 30

What did David Walker's Appeal...to the Colored Citizens of the World advocate?

A) the use of violence by slaves to secure their freedom from white masters
B) patience by slaves to wait for God's word to free them
C) that blacks should immediately immigrate to Africa to gain their rights
D) submission to their white masters

Question 31

How did Walker's pamphlet influence the antislavery movement?

A) It was immediately accepted by southerners, since it advocated the use of violence against slaves.
B) His aggressive style and tone in the pamphlet made others adopt a similar tone.
C) He hurt black pride and nationalism, which were growing at the time
D) He forced the president to rethink his views on the slave trade.

Question 32

What "first" did female abolitionist leader Maria Stewart accomplish?

A) She was the first woman to attempt to vote.
B) She was the first woman to run for Congress from Massachusetts.
C) She was the first American woman to address male audiences in public.
D) She was the first black woman to publish a work of literature.

Question 33

What was not a result of Nat Turner's Rebellion?

A) Garrison and other abolitionists took the blame for the uprising.
B) The slaves in the uprising killed almost 60 whites, although they were put down by the militia.
C) Northern abolitionists publicly supported the peaceful resolution of the slavery problem.
D) All of these are correct.