6. Document Project 6: Women in the Revolution

Quiz for Document 6.9 Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman, 1811

Quiz for Document 6.9: Elizabeth “Mum Bett” Freeman, 1811

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. What aspect of the image of Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman reveals her free status?

Her facial expression

Her clothing and jewelry

The artist

Her age

2. Why might Mum Bett have decided to change her name?

To take the name of her lawyer

To assume a disguise

To emphasize her free status

To reveal her marriage

3. What does the case of Mum Bett reveal about attitudes toward slaves in the late 1700s and early 1800s America?

Americans were moving increasingly towards antislavery legislation.

Slave owners had fewer rights than they had previously.

Slaves ran away and rebelled in larger numbers than in earlier years.

Slavery was more prevalent than it had been in previous decades.

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