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Why was Frederick Douglass not allowed to learn to read or attend school?
He was a slave.
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Douglass wanted to be free, so he escaped from _______.
Baltimore, Maryland
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A system in which someone legally owns or controls another person.
What is a slavery.
100
How did Douglass help during the civil war?
He signed up African-American men to be Union soldiers.
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The rights that are protected by laws.
What are civil rights.
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What did Frederick do to learn what he had missed in school?
What is gave bread to poor white boys to teach him what they had learned in school.
200
Frederick escaped and moved to ________.
New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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A person who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist.
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Why did Frederick Douglass meet with Abraham Lincoln?
He wanted to talk to President Lincoln about the unfair treatment of slaves.
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A person who helped people escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
What is a conductor.
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After Frederick escaped from slavery, he became an important _______?
Abolitionist.
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The capital city of Georgia?
What is Atlanta.
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Equal treatment under the law.
What is justice.
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Why did Frederick write his autobiography?
He wanted to tell what life was like for enslaved people.
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An inner sense of right or wrong.
What is your conscience.
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Douglass risked his own life by _______.
Speaking out against slavery.
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The county seat of Oconee County?
What is Watkinsville.
400
A strong feeling or opinion formed unfairly without knowing all of the facts.
What is being prejudice.
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After Frederick Douglass became a free man, he wrote an antislavery newspaper called __________.
The North Star
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A non-fiction book written by someone, about their own life story.
What is an autobiography.
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Why was it so dangerous to be an abolitionist?
Because many people did not agree with the idea that slaves should be free.
500
Where is the University of Alabama (name the city).
What is Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
500
A network of people and hiding places to help slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad.
500
The main thing Frederick Douglass fought for was ______.
Civil rights.
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The right to express your beliefs in speaking, writing, music and art.
What is the freedom of expression.