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5th Grade Slavery and Abolition worksheets

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Slavery and Abolition

Grade 5 Social Studies Worksheet

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Read each fact. Circle the group it belongs to.

1.
The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery in the United States.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
2.
African American soldiers joined the Union army.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
3.
Slave auctions took place in many Southern towns.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
4.
The Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses and routes.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
5.
Conductors helped people on the Underground Railroad.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
6.
Many newly freed people searched for family members who had been sold.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
7.
The Fifteenth Amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
8.
Enslaved people sometimes learned to read in secret.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
9.
Some people reached Canada, where slavery was not allowed.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery
10.
Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
- life under slavery
- fighting against slavery
- the end of slavery

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About this worksheet

Slavery was a system in which people were bought and sold and forced to work without pay. Enslaved people resisted it in many ways, and abolitionists, people who wanted slavery ended, worked to change the law. Slavery in the United States ended after the Civil War.

On this fifth grade sheet a child reads ten facts and circles whether each is about life under slavery, fighting against slavery or the end of slavery. Each version has different facts, and the answer key gives every answer.

What your child will learn

Know what slavery was
Know how people resisted and escaped
Know how slavery ended
Name important people and laws

C3 Framework standard: D2.His.3.3-5

Worked example

Harriet Tubman guided many people to freedom, so the fact is about fighting against slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, so it belongs to the end of slavery.