US History of Slavery - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First president to own slaves	George Washington	94%
President in office during most of the civil war	Abraham Lincoln	83%
Of the first 12 presidents, only two did not own any slaves. Name either	John Adams and John Quincy Adams	69%
Name of document that "freed the slaves" in confederate territory	Emancipation Proclamation	61%
President who owned the most slaves, but oversaw abolition of the international slave trade	Thomas Jefferson	48%
Last president to own slaves in office	Zachary Taylor	44%
This eliminated chattel slavery nationwide as a lawful activity	13th Amendment	34%
Holiday recognizing freeing of slaves in Texas	Juneteenth	34%
Escaped slave turned abolitionist, noted for his public speaking skills and autobiographies, later became a US diplomat to Haiti	Frederick Douglass	28%
Last president to own a slave at any time in their life	Ulysses S. Grant	28%
This non-president founding father posted paid ads for missing slaves and slaves for sale, but later presided over the Pennsylvania Abolition Society	Benjamin Franklin	27%
One of the first protests of slavery was in 1688 from Dutch and German members of this religious group	Quakers	25%
The first memoir of life in the White House was published by Paul Jennings, a slave of this president	James Madison	24%
Name of slave that president fathered multiple children with	Sally Hemmings	24%
Network of clandestine routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to free states and Canada	Underground Railroad	24%
Famous abolitionist and escaped slave, they helped ~70 slaves escape over ~13 missions, was later a spy for the Union Army	Harriet Tubman	23%
These non-president founding fathers both brokered slave trades, but co-founded the New York Manumission Society	Alexander Hamilton and John Jay	20%
This state, at the time an independent nation, became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery	Vermont	20%
President who owned one slave named Tom, and when Tom escaped in 1814, did not appear to make significant effort to find him	Martin van Buren	18%
This president oversaw the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state	James Monroe	17%
Last president born into a household with slave labor	Woodrow Wilson	17%
All northern states had abolished slavery by 1804, this state was the last to act	New Jersey	14%

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