Deck 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance

Question 1

What were some of the problems the antislavery movement encountered in its interracial efforts?

A) Whites refused to allow blacks to have equal status in the organizations, despite their language of equality and justice.
B) Antislavery organizations were actually very well integrated and allowed blacks huge levels of power.
C) The antislavery movement was completely white, and was never an interracial effort.
D) Whites in California refused to accept changes made by northern whites.

Answer 1

Whites refused to allow blacks to have equal status in the organizations, despite their language of equality and justice.

Question 2

What types of arguments did the AASS not use to convince people that slavery should be abolished?

A) They tried to convince people that slavery was a moral sin against God.
B) They tried to convince people that slavery led to brutality, rape and violence.
C) They tried to convince people that slavery was an inefficient economic system that could be better replaced by free labor.
D) They noted that slavery should only be allowed by inferior countries like France.

Answer 2

They noted that slavery should only be allowed by inferior countries like France.

Question 3

What types of tactics did the AASS generally not condone or use?

A) mass mailings
B) speeches and lectures
C) violence
D) massive petitioning campaign

Answer 3

violence

Question 4

What were the frequent targets of anti-black mobs?

A) black buildings and neighborhoods
B) black politicians
C) black women and children
D) Black politicians

Question 5

What was a main difference between the Liberty Party and the "Old Organization" of the AASS?

A) The "Old Organization" stopped participating in politics, and the Liberty Party was an official third party in the American political system.
B) The Liberty Party stopped participating in politics, and the "Old Organization" was an official third party in the American political system.
C) The "Old Organization" became far more prominent in politics.
D) The Liberty Party wanted to destroy the Constitution, since it promoted and defended slavery.

Question 6

What was the most significant abolitionist society?

A) American Colonization Society
B) Americans for a Democratic Society
C) Christian Freedom Organization of Philadelphia
D) American Anti-Slavery Society

Question 7

What statement is true about the riots during the 1830s and the 1840s?

A) They rarely did any physical damage to cities, but murdered large numbers of blacks.
B) They were instigated by angry blacks, who protested the conditions of their lives.
C) They grew in number as the abolitionist movement grew.
D) They were located mainly in the South.

Question 8

What role did the Black Convention Movement play in the abolitionist movement?

A) It had no role at all, since whites cracked down on the organization and refused to allow it to meet.
B) It was a very conservative force, and said that white supremacy should be acceptable if whites were kind and generous to subservient blacks.
C) It called for violent uprisings to slaughter slaveholders in the South.
D) It provided a forum for antislavery ideas and the development of black leadership.

Question 9

What was different about some of the women's antislavery societies?

A) The women's organizations proved that women could be just as racist, if not more so, than men.
B) They were rarely allowed to do fundraising, since men considered that too important for women to do.
C) They actually allowed blacks a far larger role in their organizations.
D) The women's organizations were generally only interested in spreading Christianity to slaves.

Question 10

Which of the following is true about black participation in the new AFASS versus the AASS?

A) The AFASS forbid any black involvement.
B) Blacks had a greater, more prominent, leadership role in the AFASS.
C) The AFASS had more black members, but refused to allow blacks to have leadership roles.
D) The AASS always had more prominent blacks in leadership positions.

Question 11

How did whites justify racism in the 1830s and 1840s?

A) Many whites actually began to denounce racism in this time period.
B) Scientists argued that racial differences were permanent, and indicated people's status in the world.
C) Scientists at that time argued that race was the product of environment.
D) Scientists argued that non-whites actually began the human race, but didn't benefit it technologically.

Question 12

Examine Map 9-1. Where were the worst and most frequent race riots?

A) New Orleans
B) Philadelphia
C) Charleston
D) New York City

Question 13

How were the black churches important to the abolitionist movement?

A) Clergy attacked slavery and discrimination.
B) Black churches were generally not very important, since they refused to get involved in any political issues within the community.
C) Churches provided 75% of all funds to the antislavery organizations.
D) Since black churches were still controlled by whites, they made few contributions.

Question 14

Which of the following was the most important black institution in the antislavery movement?

A) newspapers
B) mutual aid societies
C) labor organizations
D) churches

Question 15

How did the New York Liberty Party interpret the Constitution?

A) They felt that it supported slavery and should be replaced or amended.
B) They felt that it outlawed slavery throughout the entire country.
C) They thought that it provided a justification for outlawing slavery in the territories.
D) They felt it should be abolished and replaced with a semi-communistic system.

Question 16

What were the goals of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

A) to restrict slavery to the South where it already existed
B) the immediate end to slavery, with no compensation for owners
C) the gradual end to slavery, with some compensation to owners for their losses
D) the immediate end to slavery, with some compensation for owners

Question 17

Which of the following statements is true about blacks in the AASS?

A) They were often refused leadership roles or large influence in decisions.
B) They were considered, and treated as, the complete equals to whites.
C) They were never allowed to be members of the AASS.
D) The only black member was Frederick Douglass.

Question 18

Of the following groups, which did not suffer from discrimination and prejudice at the same time as African Americans?

A) Native Americans
B) Catholics
C) many European immigrants
D) Russian nationals

Question 19

How did the AASS critique the North in their antislavery efforts?

A) The AASS did not critique the North, since slavery did not exist in the North.
B) They critiqued the North for profiting from the labor of slaves in the cotton fields through northern textile industries.
C) They tried to get the last remnants of slavery abolished in the North as well.
D) They blamed northerners who refused to pay taxes as supporting proslavery legislation.

Question 20

The ________________ was a rule passed by Congress in effect forbidding any discussion of antislavery issues.

Question 21

How did Douglass differ from his colleagues who favored black nationalism?

A) He did not differ. Douglass also supported black nationalism and migration to Africa.
B) Only by degrees. Douglass approved of a separate black nation, but within America.
C) Douglass believed that blacks would eventually blend into American society.
D) None of these are correct.

Question 22

Why do we know very little about the underground railroad?

A) The records of the organization were burned in a fire set by white mobs.
B) It was only a myth, told by antislavery advocates to keep black slaves' hopes alive.
C) It was a secret organization with no centralized command, and the efforts were separated from each other by region and time.
D) It existed for only two years, and had only one leader, Harriet Tubman.

Question 23

What was the eventual effect of the black nationalistic efforts?

A) They really had little effect, since the antislavery movement eventually achieved its goal.
B) They were very influential, and a significant number of African Americans migrated.
C) They rarely included the input of blacks, since whites controlled most of the organizations.
D) Black nationalism led to an increase in urban riots by blacks during the 1840s.

Question 24

Why did some black abolitionists become increasingly militant during the 1840s?

A) They were inspired by various slave rebellions and mutinies on ships.
B) They were unable to organize in any way because of racism.
C) They were extremely angry about whites continuing to subordinate women.
D) Historians do not yet understand this phenomenon.

Question 25

Where did Madison Washington take the Creole to gain his and his shipmates' freedom?

A) Canada
B) British Bahamas
C) Haiti
D) Key West

Question 26

What did Joseph Cinque and Madison Washington have in common?

A) They both led successful revolts aboard ships to gain their freedom.
B) They both led unsuccessful revolts, were killed by the American government, and became martyrs.
C) They were both successful black lawyers who defended slavery.
D) They were both white men who fought for greater restrictions on slaves.

Question 27

Why did Frederick Douglass become disillusioned with the AASS?

A) They refused to turn toward violence, which he began to advocate.
B) They seemed to value him more for being a fugitive slave than for his oratory and intelligence.
C) He was upset because the AASS refused to press for the abolition of slavery in foreign countries as well as the United States.
D) He felt that the organization should turn toward the example of France and Spain in abolishing slavery.

Question 28

Examine Map 9-2. What does the map indicate about travel for blacks in the South prior to the Civil War? (Answer, page 227) [Conceptual]
49? 50. Who was Mary Ann Shadd Cary?

A) a woman who promoted racial integration and black migration to Canada
B) a woman who helped bring down the underground railroad, through exposing members
C) the wife of an important Congressman who helped fund the railroad
D) a journalist, and former slave, who reported on the escapees

Question 29

Which of the following statements is true about the operation of the underground railroad?

A) Escapees never returned to assist the railroad and help others escape - it was too dangerous.
B) Operation of the railroad was a life-threatening endeavor for whites only, as blacks would only be returned to slavery, not harmed.
C) Blacks were the only ones active on the railroad.
D) Prior to the growth of the railroad, the escape was known as the "line of posts."

Question 30

Who was/were the main leader(s) of the underground railroad in the early 1840s?

A) Harriet Tubman
B) Charles T. Torrey and Thomas Smallwood
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Madison Washington

Question 31

Where did most slaves who utilized the underground railroad come from?

A) South Carolina, where conditions were the worst
B) Mississippi and Alabama
C) New Orleans, since they had access to the Mississippi
D) the border states

Question 32

What was the usual destination of the slaves on the underground railroad?

Question 33

What was the name of Frederick Douglass's influential newspaper?