Nat Turner's Rebellion
Question: What state did Nat Turner's Rebellion take place in?
Virginia
Question: What anti-slavery newspaper did Douglass found and publish, whose name refers to a constellation that guided freedom seekers northward?
Answer: The North Star
Question: Was Sojourner Truth able to read and write?
Answer: No (she could not read but could hear and had memorized Bible stories)
Question: What abolitionist newspaper did Garrison found in Boston on January 1, 1831, and publish for 35 years until slavery ended?
Answer: The Liberator
Question: What 1852 novel did Stowe write that became the best-selling novel of the 19th century after the Bible and allegedly led President Lincoln to call her "the little lady who started this great war"?
Answer: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Question: According to his confession, what type of experience did Turner have in which he saw white and black spirits engaged in battle, which he interpreted as a divine calling?
Answer: A vision (or religious vision)
Question: What state did Frederick Douglass escape from slavery in?
Answer: Maryland
Question: In what state was Truth born into slavery, and which abolished slavery in 1827, granting her freedom?
Answer: New York
Question: In the first issue of The Liberator, Garrison famously declared "I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—AND I WILL BE" what?
Answer: HEARD
Question: What 1850 law motivated Stowe to write her famous novel, which required citizens to help capture escaped slaves?
Answer: The Fugitive Slave Act (of 1850)
Question: After Turner's Rebellion, Virginia passed laws banning enslaved and free Black people from learning to do what, making it illegal to teach them with punishments including fines up to $1,000?
Answer: Reading and writing (or literacy)
Question: What word did Douglass point out never appears anywhere in the Constitution's text, which he used as evidence to prove the Constitution was not pro-slavery?
Answer: "Slavery" (or slave/slaveholding)
Question: According to Sojourner Truth, what two struggles did she connect together in her advocacy?
Answer: The struggle against slavery and the struggle for women's rights (accept: abolition and women's rights)
Question: In his 1831 editorial, what approach to ending slavery did Garrison publicly apologise for previously supporting, which he now rejected in favour of immediate emancipation?
Answer: Gradual abolition (or gradual emancipation)
Question: In Uncle Tom's Cabin, what violent act does the protagonist Uncle Tom refuse to do to another slave named Lucy, even when threatened with fifty lashes by the cruel master Simon Legree?
Answer: Whip her (or give her twenty lashes)
Question: Virginia's 1832 slave codes banned religious meetings led by Black preachers and night-time preaching attended by slaves without what specific item from their owner?
Answer: Written permission
Question: According to Douglass's 1860 speech in Glasgow, Scotland, what method should abolitionists use to end slavery rather than refusing to participate in government?
Answer: Political organizing (or voting for antislavery candidates/working within the political system)
Question: How did Sojourner Truth challenge the argument that women were too weak or delicate for public life?
Answer: She described doing hard physical labor as an enslaved woman (accept: she talked about plowing, reaping, chopping, and doing as much work as any man)
Question: What did Garrison compare slavery to when he rejected using "moderation" in his language - he said it was like telling someone to give a moderate alarm when their house is on what?
Answer: Fire (accept: on fire/burning)
Question: Stowe's strategy relied on using emotional storytelling to make Northern readers do what with enslaved people's suffering, appealing to their Christian sympathy?
Answer: Sympathize (or empathize/feel compassion)
Question: The Biblical phrase Turner used in his confession—"the first should be last and the last should be first"—referred to what happening to oppressed people and their oppressors?
Answer: The oppressed rising up and the oppressors falling (or enslaved people gaining freedom and slave owners losing power)
Question: According to Douglass, how did he respond to critics who said Americans have used the Constitution to support slavery - did he deny it happened, agree the Constitution is pro-slavery, or admit it's true but argue the Constitution itself isn't pro-slavery?
Answer: He admitted it's true but argued the Constitution itself isn't pro-slavery (accept variations of this)
Question: What type of advocacy did Truth practice that addresses multiple overlapping forms of oppression simultaneously, connecting both the struggle against slavery and the struggle for women's rights?
Answer: Intersectional advocacy (or intersectionality)
Question: On July 4, 1854, Garrison publicly burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution at a rally in Massachusetts, calling it by what phrase that suggested an agreement with evil?
Answer: A "covenant with death and an agreement with hell"
Question: At the end of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the character George Harris decides to move to what African colony rather than stay in America, revealing Stowe's support for sending freed Black Americans to Africa instead of integrating them as equals?
Answer: Liberia (Accept: the colonization movement/American Colonization Society)