Nationalism and Economic Expansion Practice Test

You're being tested on which group founded the settlement that grew into Monrovia, Liberia. The American Colonization Society, formed in 1816, organized and financed settlement on Cape Mesurado near Monrovia in 1822. The idea was to relocate freed African Americans to Africa, and the settlement eventually became the independent nation of Liberia in 1847. The other groups had different missions: the Underground Railroad helped enslaved people escape to freedom in other parts of the U.S. or Canada; the American Anti-Slavery Society pushed for abolition within the United States; and the Freedmen's Bureau assisted freed people in the U.S. after the Civil War. So the organization responsible for establishing Monrovia's settlement is the American Colonization Society.