The Abolitionist Movement and the Women's Suffrage Movement

Abolitionists demanded:
1. immediate freeing of the slaves
2. freedom to practice their religion
3. equal rights for women
Abolitionists believed that:
1. slavery should be ended gradually so as not to hurt the economy of the South
2. slavery should be legal only in the south
3. slavery was morally wrong, cruel, inhumane and undemocratic, and that slaves should be freed immediately
Who of the following was NOT an abolitionist leader?
1. William Lloyd Garrison
2. Frederick Douglass
3. Patrick Henry
4. Harriet Tubman
This abolitionist leader, a runaway slave, gave many moving speeches against slavery. He once told his audience, "I appear this evening as a robber. I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master (the slave-owner), and ran off with them."
1. Harriet Tubman
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Frederick Douglass
The abolitionist movement emerged in the:
1. South
2. Northeast
3. West
From the following statements about the Underground Railroad, choose the one that is NOT correct.
1. The "Underground Railroad" was a system of secret escape routes leading from the South to free states in the North or in Canada.
2. The "Underground Railroad" was a series of underground tunnels and overland trains that served as escape routes for runaway slaves.
3. "Conductors," or helpers along the Underground Railroad, led slaves from one hiding place to the next.
4. The sheds, barns or attics where "Conductors" hid runaway slaves along escape route, were called "stations".
Which statement about Harriet Tubman is correct?
1. Harriet Tubman became a well-known abolitionist leader because of her daring escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad.
2. Harriet Tubman, one of the best known "conductors" of the Underground Railroad, returned to the South 20 times during the 1850s to guide about 300 escaped slaves to freedom.
3. Tubman, like most other conductors on the Underground Railroad, was a white northerner who opposed slavery.
In his newpaper,"The Liberator", this white abolitionist leader called for an immediate end to slavery, saying, "On this subject (slavery) I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation.... I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD!"
1. Frederick Douglass
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Thomas Paine
Which of these abolitionist leaders was NOT an escaped slave himself?
1. Harriet Tubman
2. William Lloyd Garrison
3. Frederick Douglass
The root word of "abolitionist" is abolish. To abolish something is to:
1. end it
2. start it
3. free it
True or False - Many leaders of the women's rights movement were also abolitionists.
1. True
2. False
Isabella Van Wagener, a former slave, traveled around the country preaching against slavery. She was important in the women's rights movement and is remembered for the famous “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech she gave at the woman’s rights convention in 1851. She chose a first name for herself that meant "traveler". She became known as:
1. Isabel Sojourner Truth
2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
3. Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders of the:
1. abolitionist movement
2. women's suffrage movement
3. Republican Party