Abolition of Slavery quiz
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What ended slavery throughout the United States?
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Which was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery?
Answer: Brazil
Why: Brazil's 1888 abolition came 23 years after the United States ended slavery in 1865.
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Where did the Emancipation Proclamation declare enslaved people free?
Answer: Rebel-held areas
Why: It left out the slave states that stayed loyal to the Union, such as Kentucky and Maryland.
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Which organization created the 1926 Slavery Convention?
Answer: League of Nations
Why: The United Nations came later: in 1956 it extended the 1926 treaty with a supplementary convention.
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Who guided an 1863 raid that freed over 700 enslaved people?
Answer: Harriet Tubman
Why: Using reports from local scouts, she guided Union gunboats up South Carolina's Combahee River past Confederate mines.
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Who received the £20 million when Britain ended slavery?
Answer: Slave owners
Why: The payout equalled about 40% of everything the British government spent in 1833.
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Where did the 1841 Creole ship rebels sail to win freedom?
Answer: The Bahamas
Why: British colonial authorities in Nassau freed 128 people aboard the ship because Britain had abolished slavery.
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