3.10 Abolition of Slavery – 🍁The Canadian Experience

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#1. Who was the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada?

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Sir Guy Carleton

John Graves Simcoe

Joseph Brant

#2. Who was the first woman publisher in Canada?

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Therese Casgrain

#3. What guided thousands of slaves in their escape from the US to Canada?

The North Star

Footsteps in the snow

Maps made by Aboriginals

Cold Arctic winds

#4. Who was John Graves Simcoe?

Commander of the British forces that won the battle of the Plains of Abraham

An American Revolutionary who fought against the Loyalists

The first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize

A Loyalist military officer and Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada when Upper Canada became the first province in the British Empire to move towards ending slavery

#5. Who was the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada during the province’s move towards abolition of slavery?

Sir Guy Carleton

John Graves Simcoe

Joseph Brant

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

#6. Who was Mary Ann Shadd Cary? (Select all that apply)

Select all that apply:

Founder of The Provincial Freeman weekly newspaper

The first woman MP in Canada

The first woman publisher in Canada

An outspoken anti-slavery activist

#7. Which province was the first in the British Empire to move towards abolition of slavery?

Atlantic Canada

Lower Canada

Upper Canada

Pacific Canada

#8. Who founded the weekly newspaper, The Provincial Freeman?

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Sir Guy Carleton

Chief Tecumseh

John Graves Simcoe

#9. Where did the first movement to abolish transatlantic slave trade emerge?

The UN

The British Parliament

The American Parliament

The French Parliament

#10. What was the Underground Railroad?

An underground railway network that helped loyalists smuggle gold from the US into Canada

A Christian anti-slavery network that helped thousands of slaves escape from the US and settle in Canada

The first railway network to link Western Canada to the rest of the country

An secret underground railway network that helped slaves escape from the US

#11. What was the weekly newspaper, Provincial Freeman, dedicated to?

Select all that apply:

Black immigration to Canada,

Anti-slavery

Upholding British Rule

Urging people to drink less alcohol

#12. When did Upper Canada become the first province in British Canada to move towards abolition of slavery?

1795

1893

1895

1793

#13. Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an outspoken activist in the movement to abolish slavery in the USA.

False

True

#14. When did the first movement to abolish the transatlantic slave trade emerge?

Late 1800s

Late 1700s

Late 1900s

Late 1600s

#15. When was The Provincial Freeman founded?

1953

1850

1853

1950

#16. Who founded the City of York?

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

John Graves Simcoe

Sir Guy Carleton

Joseph Brant

#17. The City of York, founded by Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe, is present-day:

Quebec City

Toronto

Montreal

Halifax

#18. When did the British Parliament abolish slavery throughout the British Empire?

1833

1830

1930

1933

#19. When did the British Parliament prohibit the buying and selling of slaves?

1807

1717

1707

1817

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