Uncle Tom's Cabin Novel Trivia! Quiz Questions!
The trivia quiz questions are on Uncle Tom’s cabin novel. This books is banned as it is said to exaggerate the slavery experience that can be seen through Tom`s eyes. Do you know the significance of this book and its impact on the world we live in today? The quiz will be perfect to test you out. Do give it a try and see how well you remember not only his story but how slavery was portrayed!
- 1.The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
- A.
John Brown
- B.
Harriet Tubman
- C.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- D.
Frederick Douglass
- 2.An informal network of abolitionists that helped fugitive slaves.
- A.
Underground Railroad
- B.
Free Soil Party
- C.
Lecompton Constitution
- D.
Prohibitionists
- 3.A New York abolitionist who massacred five pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.
- A.
John Brown
- B.
Frederick Douglass
- C.
David Wilmot
- D.
Stephen Douglas
- 4.The state statutes that nullified the Fugitive Slave Act.
- A.
Personal Liberties Laws
- B.
Wilmot Proviso
- C.
Compromise of 1850
- D.
Missouri Compromise
- 5.A Maryland born slave was known as “Black Moses”.
- A.
Harriet Tubman
- B.
Frederick Douglass
- C.
Abraham Lincoln
- D.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 6.The characterization of violent outbreaks in 1856 that occurred in and around Lawrence, Kansas.
- A.
Bleeding Kansas
- B.
Civil War
- C.
Battle of the Fugitive Slaves
- D.
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
- 7.A group whose main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.
- A.
Free Soil Party
- B.
Lecompton Constitution
- C.
Fire - Eaters
- D.
The Missouri Compromisers
- 8.A proposed law that prohibited slavery in any lands won from Mexico.
- A.
Wilmot Proviso
- B.
Fugitive Slave Act
- C.
Kansas Nebraska Act
- D.
Compromise of 1850
- 9.Legislation based on Henry Clay’s proposal for concessions by both the North and the South.
- A.
Compromise of 1850
- B.
Kansas Nebraska Act
- C.
Wilmot Proviso
- D.
Popular Sovereignty
- 10.A law that required the return of runaway slaves to their masters.
- A.
Fugitive Slave Act
- B.
Wilmot Proviso
- C.
Missouri Compromise
- D.
Kansas Nebraska Act
- 11.A policy that stated voters in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery there.
- A.
Popular Sovereignty
- B.
Compromise of 1850
- C.
Wilmot Proviso
- D.
Missouri Compromise
- 12._______________ is known for visiting several homesteads along the Pottawatomie Creek and hacking to pieces pro slavery settlers.
- A.
John Brown
- B.
Abraham Lincoln
- C.
Stephen Douglas
- D.
Frederick Douglas
- 13.Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin written?
- A.
To generate concern and compassion for slaves.
- B.
To right a factual story of actual events and people
- C.
To share what it was like for northern slaves in the south
- D.
To stop the spread of slavery into Canada
- 14.The Dred Scott decision stated that slaves in free territories.
- A.
Were the property of their owners
- B.
Were free when living in a free territory
- C.
Should be made American citizens
- D.
Should have the right to sue in the courts
- 15.Why did South Carolina secede from the Union?
- A.
They believed that with the election of Lincoln, the federal government was hostile to slavery
- B.
The Crittenden Compromise failed.
- C.
The North, under president john Bell, no longer wanted them in the Union
- D.
Lincoln stated that he wanted to support slavery.
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