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DSST Civil War and Reconstruction - Question List

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41. Harriet Tubman was instrumental in founding which of the following?
  1. Godey's Lady's Book
  2. Lowell Factory Unions
  3. The Women's Temperance Association
  4. The Daughters of Liberty
  5. The Underground Railroad
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42. All of the following statements reflect the experience of African Americans in the abolitionist movement EXCEPT:
  1. They were often in subordinate roles when working with white leaders.
  2. They created abolitionist societies for African Americans.
  3. They encouraged free African Americans to gain skilled positions to forward rights.
  4. They believed that races needed to be segregated in order to achieve equality.
  5. Their presence broke down racial barriers within the movement.
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43. Many northerners opposed abolitionism because:
  1. They had family members in the South who were slave owners.
  2. Abolition would mean equality for women.
  3. They feared that free African Americans would take their jobs.
  4. They owned slaves themselves or wanted to.
  5. They feared that it would lead to equality for African Americans.
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44.

Formerly enslaved women, including Harriet Jacobs, sought to draw attention to the sexual abuse inherent in slavery in order to:

  1. Urge white, Southern women to end family members' abuse of enslaved women.
  2. Illustrate that women should not fear speaking about sexual issues.
  3. Encourage interracial relationships.
  4. Demand changes in laws to have rape statutes apply to female slaves.
  5. Explain the presence of light-skinned African American children.
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45. Which of the following represents a conflict in which blood was shed between abolitionists and those who supported slavery?
  1. War for Texas
  2. Haymarket Riots
  3. Little Big Horn
  4. Bleeding Kansas
  5. Harper's Ferry
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