Statistics for US History of Slavery

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First president to own slaves	George Washington	93%
President in office during most of the civil war	Abraham Lincoln	80%
Of the first 12 presidents, only two did not own any slaves. Name either	John Adams and John Quincy Adams	70%
Name of document that "freed the slaves" in confederate territory	Emancipation Proclamation	58%
Last president to own slaves in office	Zachary Taylor	40%
President who owned the most slaves, but oversaw abolition of the international slave trade	Thomas Jefferson	38%
Holiday recognizing freeing of slaves in Texas	Juneteenth	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	23%
Name of slave that president fathered multiple children with	Sally Hemmings	23%
Last president to own a slave at any time in their life	Ulysses S. Grant	23%
Escaped slave turned abolitionist, noted for his public speaking skills and autobiographies, later became a US diplomat to Haiti	Frederick Douglass	20%
The first memoir of life in the White House was published by Paul Jennings, a slave of this president	James Madison	20%
This eliminated chattel slavery nationwide as a lawful activity	13th Amendment	18%
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%
One of the first protests of slavery was in 1688 from Dutch and German members of this religious group	Quakers	18%
Famous abolitionist and escaped slave, they helped ~70 slaves escape over ~13 missions, was later a spy for the Union Army	Harriet Tubman	15%
Network of clandestine routes and safe houses to help slaves escape to free states and Canada	Underground Railroad	15%
Last president born into a household with slave labor	Woodrow Wilson	15%
These non-president founding fathers both brokered slave trades, but co-founded the New York Manumission Society	Alexander Hamilton and John Jay	13%
This state, at the time an independent nation, became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery	Vermont	13%
This president oversaw the Missouri Compromise, admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state	James Monroe	8%
All northern states had abolished slavery by 1804, this state was the last to act	New Jersey	8%