Antebellum Abolitionist Movements and Events Quiz

Test your knowledge on key figures, events, and laws of the Antebellum Abolitionist Movement in the United States with this quiz!

#1

Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
#2

What was the primary method used by the Underground Railroad to help enslaved people escape to freedom?

Providing fake identification documents
Building secret tunnels
Establishing safe houses and secret routes
Convincing plantation owners to free their slaves
#3

Which event prompted the beginning of the Civil War in the United States?

Dred Scott Decision
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Attack on Fort Sumter
#4

Who was the famous African American woman who escaped from slavery and became a prominent abolitionist and speaker?

Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Ida B. Wells
Mary McLeod Bethune
#5

Which political party was formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery into the Western territories of the United States?

Whig Party
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Free Soil Party
#6

Which famous abolitionist founded the newspaper 'The Liberator'?

Frederick Douglass
Sojourner Truth
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
#7

What was the name of the Supreme Court case that ruled enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights under the Constitution?

Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Marbury v. Madison
#8

Who was the African American woman who sued for her freedom after being taken to a free state by her enslaver?

Sojourner Truth
Dred Scott
Harriet Tubman
Linda Brown
#9

Who was known as the 'Great Compromiser' for his efforts to maintain peace between Northern and Southern states before the Civil War?

John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
James Buchanan
#10

Who was the first African American to be nominated for Vice President of the United States by a major political party?

Shirley Chisholm
Barack Obama
Jesse Jackson
Frederick Douglass
#11

What was the name of the violent uprising led by enslaved people in Virginia in 1831?

Nat Turner's Rebellion
John Brown's Raid
Stono Rebellion
Gabriel's Rebellion
#12

Which abolitionist was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry in an attempt to incite a slave rebellion?

John Brown
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Nat Turner
#13

Which abolitionist and women's rights activist organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the United States?

Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
#14

Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in the civil rights movement?

Rosa Parks
Fannie Lou Hamer
Coretta Scott King
Wangari Maathai

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