18. Education reform resulted in tax-supported elementary schools in most urban areas. There were fewer in rural areas because
A. children did not have transportation to school.
B. rural areas did not have school buildings.
C. children were working in factories and could not leave to attend school.
D. children were needed to help with farming during large parts of the year.
19. Early opponents of slavery thought gradualism was the key to ending slavery. The first step in the process should be to
A. stop slave traders from bringing in new slaves.
B. phase out slavery in the upper South.
C. phase out slavery in the North.
D. compensate slaveholders in the South.
20. Some early antislavery reformers founded the American Colonization Society, who felt slavery and racism could only be solved if African Americans were sent back to their homelands in Africa. They were able to
A. stop slave traders from bringing in new slaves from Africa.
B. compensate slave holders for their loss and move 1.5 million African Americans back to Africa.
C. acquire land in West Africa and and charter a ship to take 12,000 African Americans to Africa.
D. move 250,000 African Americans between 1821 and 1860 back to their homelands in Africa.
21. In the 1830s, abolitionists proposed that those enslaved should be
A. freed gradually, with compensation to their slaveholders.
B. freed immediately, without compensation to slaveholders.
C. freed in small groups so the economy in the South could adjust.
D. freed immediately and sent back to Africa.
22. How were abolitionists able to create support for their cause?
A. By founding the American Anti-Slavery Society
B. By applying the ideals from the Second Great Awakening
C. By using a wide variety of media to share their ideas
D. By founding the American Colonization Society
23. How did Southerners respond to the criticisms of slavery?
A. They argued that slaves had no desire for freedom because of their close relationship with their Masters.
B. They suppressed publications like the Liberator from being circulated in the South.
C. They stoned and attacked abolitionists.
D. They kidnapped free African Americans in the North and brought them back to the South.
24. Two prominent African Americans in the abolitionist movement, who spread their anti-slavery message in popular speeches and writings, were
A. Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison
B. Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth
C. Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison
D. Frederick Douglass and James Monroe
25. Southerners angered by anti-slavery writings and revolts demanded the suppression of abolitionist publications as a condition for
A. gradually freeing enslaved peoples.
B. beginning to discuss the abolition of slavery.
C. continuing as part of the Union.
D. paying wages to slaves for daily work
A. children did not have transportation to school.
B. rural areas did not have school buildings.
C. children were working in factories and could not leave to attend school.
D. children were needed to help with farming during large parts of the year.
19. Early opponents of slavery thought gradualism was the key to ending slavery. The first step in the process should be to
A. stop slave traders from bringing in new slaves.
B. phase out slavery in the upper South.
C. phase out slavery in the North.
D. compensate slaveholders in the South.
20. Some early antislavery reformers founded the American Colonization Society, who felt slavery and racism could only be solved if African Americans were sent back to their homelands in Africa. They were able to
A. stop slave traders from bringing in new slaves from Africa.
B. compensate slave holders for their loss and move 1.5 million African Americans back to Africa.
C. acquire land in West Africa and and charter a ship to take 12,000 African Americans to Africa.
D. move 250,000 African Americans between 1821 and 1860 back to their homelands in Africa.
21. In the 1830s, abolitionists proposed that those enslaved should be
A. freed gradually, with compensation to their slaveholders.
B. freed immediately, without compensation to slaveholders.
C. freed in small groups so the economy in the South could adjust.
D. freed immediately and sent back to Africa.
22. How were abolitionists able to create support for their cause?
A. By founding the American Anti-Slavery Society
B. By applying the ideals from the Second Great Awakening
C. By using a wide variety of media to share their ideas
D. By founding the American Colonization Society
23. How did Southerners respond to the criticisms of slavery?
A. They argued that slaves had no desire for freedom because of their close relationship with their Masters.
B. They suppressed publications like the Liberator from being circulated in the South.
C. They stoned and attacked abolitionists.
D. They kidnapped free African Americans in the North and brought them back to the South.
24. Two prominent African Americans in the abolitionist movement, who spread their anti-slavery message in popular speeches and writings, were
A. Harriet Tubman and William Lloyd Garrison
B. Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth
C. Sojourner Truth and William Lloyd Garrison
D. Frederick Douglass and James Monroe
25. Southerners angered by anti-slavery writings and revolts demanded the suppression of abolitionist publications as a condition for
A. gradually freeing enslaved peoples.
B. beginning to discuss the abolition of slavery.
C. continuing as part of the Union.
D. paying wages to slaves for daily work