Amendments
What amendment to the constitution officially ended slavery?
a. the First Amendment
b. the Tenth Amendment
c. the Twelfth Amendment
d. the Thirteenth Amendment
d. the Thirteenth Amendment
What is a machine that could take the seeds out of cotton, making it a valuable crop?
a. reaper
b. cotton gin
c. steam engine
d. gristmill
b. cotton gin
What was the name of the novel Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in 1852 about runaway slaves she met in Cincinnati?
a. the Underground Railroad
b. Harpers Ferry
c. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
d. the Fugitive Slave Law
c. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
TOP
According to the timeline, what event took place after the year 1865?
a. Sojourner Truth speaks at Akron meeting
b. Ohio Women’s Rights Association forms
c. Abraham Lincoln elected President
d. Fifteenth Amendment approved
d. Fifteenth Amendment approved
What was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?
a. to end slavery
b. to give women the right to vote
c. to make African Americans citizens of the United States
d. to give African Americans the right to vote
c. to make African Americans citizens of the United States
What is the use of skills, ideas and tools to meet people’s needs?
a. slavery
b. telegraphing
c. technology
d. information
c. technology
What is a reason why many African Americans came to Ohio after the Civil War?
a. factory jobs in Ohio paid low wages
b. opportunities in manufacturing
c. discrimination was still present
d. better living conditions than in the south
b. opportunities in manufacturing
BOTTOM
According to the timeline, what event happened in the year 1850?
a. Ohio becomes the third-largest state
b. Fugitive Slave Law passed
c. John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
d. Abraham Lincoln elected President
b. Fugitive Slave Law passed
What was the purpose of the Fifteenth Amendment?
a. to end slavery
b. to give women the right to vote
c. to make African Americans citizens of the United States
d. to give African American men the right to vote
d. to give African American men the right to vote
What is the right to vote called?
a. equality
b. suffrage
c. slavery
d. amendment
b. suffrage
What was the telegraph used for during the Civil War?
a. to plan attacks and send information
b. to help the Underground Railroad
c. to play musical recordings
d. to aid farmers with their harvest
a. to plan attacks and send information
BOTTOM
According to the timeline, which event took place before the year 1850?
a. Ohio becomes the third-largest state
b. Fugitive Slave Law passed
c. John Brown raids Harpers Ferry
d. Abraham Lincoln elected President
a. Ohio becomes the third-largest state
BONUS
What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
a. the law made it illegal to help enslaved people escape
b. the law was made to reward people who helped enslaved people escape
c. the law was made in order to help the cause of abolitionists
d. the law made slavery illegal in Ohio
a. the law made it illegal to help enslaved people escape
What were people called who worked to end slavery?
a. fugitives
b. radicals
c. federalists
d. abolitionists
d. abolitionists
What was the effect of Sojourner Truth’s speech at the meeting in Akron in May of 1851?
a. it was important to the course of women’s rights
b. it was important to the course of African American’s rights
c. it ended the Civil War
d. it made troops of the Confederate army fight harder for their cause
a. it was important to the course of women’s rights
BOTTOM
According to the timeline, in what year was Abraham Lincoln elected President?
1860
BONUS
According to the timeline, in what year did the Ohio Women’s Rights Association form?
(you can use the resources to help!)
1852
What was the name of the system of secret routes used by free people in the North and South to help enslaved people escape to freedom?
a. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
b. the Underground Railroad
c. Harpers Ferry
d. the Pony Express
b. the Underground Railroad
Why was the Civil War called the first “modern” war?
a. the Civil War took place a short time ago
b. African Americans living in the South had equal rights during the Civil War
c. men and women had equal rights during the Civil War
d. new technology was first used in the Civil War
d. new technology was first used in the Civil War
TOP
According to the timeline, which event took place after the Civil War had ended?
a. Sojourner Truth speaks at Akron meeting
b. Ohio Women’s Rights Association forms
c. Fifteenth Amendment approved
d. Abraham Lincoln elected President
c. Fifteenth Amendment approved