3.10 Abolition of Slavery – 🍁The Canadian Experience

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#1. Who founded the City of York?

John Graves Simcoe

Sir Guy Carleton

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Joseph Brant

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

The UN

The American Parliament

The French Parliament

The British Parliament

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

Pacific Canada

Atlantic Canada

Upper Canada

Lower Canada

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

1717

1807

1707

1817

#5. When was The Provincial Freeman founded?

1953

1850

1950

1853

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

1895

1793

1795

1893

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

John Graves Simcoe

Sir Guy Carleton

Joseph Brant

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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

Select all that apply:

The first woman publisher in Canada

The first woman MP in Canada

Founder of The Provincial Freeman weekly newspaper

An outspoken anti-slavery activist

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

John Graves Simcoe

Sir Guy Carleton

Chief Tecumseh

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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

Quebec City

Halifax

Montreal

Toronto

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

Select all that apply:

Urging people to drink less alcohol

Black immigration to Canada,

Upholding British Rule

Anti-slavery

#12. Who was John Graves Simcoe?

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

The first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize

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

An American Revolutionary who fought against the Loyalists

#13. What was the Underground Railroad?

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

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

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

Late 1800s

Late 1600s

Late 1900s

Late 1700s

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

Footsteps in the snow

Cold Arctic winds

Maps made by Aboriginals

The North Star

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

Agnes Macphail

Dr. Emily Stowe

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Therese Casgrain

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

True

False

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

1830

1933

1833

1930

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

John Graves Simcoe

Joseph Brant

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Sir Guy Carleton

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