--- title: Slavery and its abolition — how Mova does on the tests · History description: Lesson 31 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 6 of 10 tests right, exam 1 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/) / 31 # Slavery and its abolition **Tests:** 6 of 10 right · **Exam:** 1 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 6 of 14 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72` Lesson 31 of the history course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/). Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/). ### Test 1 · ★ · right ✓ {#t1} dude in the comments says enslaved people just sat there and accepted it. rubbish? - **1.** True, they liked it — no support - **2.** Rubbish, they all went home at once — no support - **3.** Rubbish, they resisted, escaped and even won a revolution in Haiti — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 5 - **4.** True, they never resisted — score 1 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 5, against 1 for the next best. Its support: lesson 31, line 3: «Enslaved people were never just victims: they kept their music, faith and stories alive, escaped, resisted, and in Haiti won a revolution that made the first f…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «win» (+2); the same thing acted on «revolution» (+2); the same place «haiti» (+2). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t1/) ### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2} Why did Britain's sugar boycott put pressure on slave owners? - **1.** It made sugar sweeter — no support - **2.** Sugar became illegal everywhere in the world at once — no support - **3.** It had no effect on anyone — no support - **4.** Fewer people bought their sugar, so they earned less — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 7 **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 4 with score 7, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 4: «Ordinary people helped too, like a whole school deciding not to buy one brand of sweets: in Britain thousands stopped buying slave-grown sugar and signed petit…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «buy» (+3); the same thing acted on «grown sugar» (+3); a different doer (counts against) (+1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t2/) ### Test 3 · ★ · right ✓ {#t3} If the Underground Railroad had no trains or tracks, why was it called a railroad? - **1.** Nobody knows any reason — no support - **2.** It used railway words in secret, like stations and conductors — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 3 - **3.** It really was a long train that ran under the ground — no support - **4.** It was owned by a big railway company in New York — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 3, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 14: «In the USA a secret network called the Underground Railroad helped escaping slaves travel north, using secret railway words such as stations and conductors, an…», reached through the same lesson line as the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same circumstance (+2); the same action «use» (+1); the same thing acted on «secret railway words» (+1). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-1). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t3/) ### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4} Which is true about slavery in history? - **1.** It happened in many societies, and the Atlantic trade was one of the largest — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Slavery was always legal and fine — no support - **3.** Only one country in the whole history of the world has ever had slavery — no support - **4.** Slavery ended everywhere in 1492 — **← Mova's choice** · score 9 **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 4 with score 9, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 31, line 16: «About four million people in the USA became free when slavery ended.», reached through the remembered sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «end» (+5); the same doer «slavery» (+4). The right option, 1, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t4/) ### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5} Why does Martin Luther King Jr.'s way of protest still inspire people? - **1.** He wrote the first computer program for the government — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** He won a war with tanks — no support - **3.** He used peaceful marches and powerful words — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** He became a king — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t5/) ### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6} What would Rosa Parks staying seated on the bus show the world? - **1.** That unfair laws could be challenged peacefully — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Nothing important — no support - **3.** That buses were too full — no support - **4.** That she was very tired of standing — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t6/) ### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7} four million ppl freed in 1865?? from what war - **1.** The Crusades to Jerusalem — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** The Hundred Years' War in France — no support - **3.** The First World War in Europe — no support - **4.** The American Civil War — **✓ the right answer** · no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t7/) ### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8} Many European port cities grew rich in the 1700s. What is an uncomfortable part of that story? - **1.** They were paid by the Moon — no support - **2.** Some of the money came from the slave trade — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** They found gold under the streets of the city long ago — **← Mova's choice** · score 2 - **4.** It is not uncomfortable at all — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 7, line 1: «About 4,500 years ago, while the pyramids were being built, great cities stood by the river Indus, in today's Pakistan and northwest India: Harappa and Mohenjo…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «great cities» (+2); the same property (+1). Against it: a different action (counts against) (-1). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t8/) ### Test 9 · ★ · right ✓ {#t9} Why did the words Am I not a man and a brother move so many people? - **1.** They asked people to see the enslaved person as an equal human — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** They were a song about football — no support - **3.** They advertised sugar — no support - **4.** They were a funny joke — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t9/) ### Test 10 · ★ · right ✓ {#t10} After 1865 Black Americans were free. Why did they still need the civil rights movement? - **1.** Everything was already equal, so there was nothing left to change — no support - **2.** Unfair laws still kept them apart and stopped many from voting — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · score 2 - **3.** They wanted to bring slavery back — no support - **4.** Nobody ever needed it — no support **Why:** It took the question to ask why something happens (its cause). It chose option 2 with score 2, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 19, line 8: «The Aztecs believed the sun needed offerings to keep moving and made human sacrifices, often of war captives, and neighbouring peoples feared and hated them fo…», reached through the cause of the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «keep» (+4). Against it: a different doer (counts against) (-2). · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/t10/) ### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1} Ascertain the approximate number of Africans forcibly transported across the Atlantic between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. - **1.** One billion — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** Twelve thousand — no support - **3.** Twelve million — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** One hundred thousand — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/e1/) ### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2} Identify the first state to be established as a free Black republic, in eighteen hundred and four. - **1.** Haiti — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support - **2.** Jamaica — no support - **3.** Brazil — no support - **4.** Liberia — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/e2/) ### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3} Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the conduct of enslaved people under slavery? - **1.** They were free to depart at will — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** They resisted by diverse means, including escape and revolt — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **3.** They acquiesced without any resistance — no support - **4.** They were remunerated for their labour — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/e3/) ### Exam question 4 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e4} Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the abolition of slavery throughout the United States. - **1.** It was accomplished in seventeen hundred and seventy-six — **← Mova's choice** · no support - **2.** It has never been accomplished — no support - **3.** It was accomplished in eighteen hundred and sixty-five — **✓ the right answer** · no support - **4.** It was accomplished in nineteen hundred and sixty-three — no support **Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/e4/) - ← previous: [30. The Industrial Revolution](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/30-the-industrial-revolution/) - next →: [32. Votes for women](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/32-votes-for-women/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/)