Chapter 13 The Movement to End Slavery

Module 15 Lesson #3 The Movement to End Slavery

Multiple Choice

Where was Frederick Douglass born?

• Virginia

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

• Maryland

Americans Oppose Slavery

• Ben Franklin was the president of the first antislavery society in America

• Quakers published the first abolition newspaper The Emancipator and they were against slavery based on religious grounds that all people are created equal in the eyes of God

• Some abolitionists wanted African-Americans to have full equality and some wanted them to be free, but not have the same rights as free people

• Liberia was created by abolitionist who wanted to take freed slaves and give them an African country to live in and the capital was named Monrovia after then president Monroe

Multiple Choice

What African nation was created for freed African-American slaves?

• Gambia

• Lesotho

• Congo

• Liberia

Spreading the Abolitionist Message

• Many abolitionists went on speaking tours and others wrote pamphlets and articles in their local newspapers

• William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator in 1831 and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833

• The abolition movement was gaining followers every day because they spent every day talking about the evils of slavery

• Angelina and Sarah Grimke came from a slave owning family in South Carolina and spent their lives trying to get other Southern slave owners to give up their slaves

Multiple Choice

All abolitionists wanted freed African-Americans to have full rights

• True

• False

African American Abolitionists

• Frederick Douglass was a former slave, a gifted public speaker, and major contributor to the anti-slavery movement

• Douglass had an abolitionist newspaper called the North Star

• Sojourner Truth preached the truth about slavery, was inspired to do so by God, and was a gifted speaker who had a quick wit

• Truth was also a member of the Women's Rights movement and was invited to the White House by President Lincoln

• Truth sued a White man to free her son and won and was the only African-American at that time to win such a case

Multiple Choice

What was the name of Frederick Douglass' newspaper?

• The Emancipator

• The North Star

• The Abolitionist Times

Multiple Select

Which of the following was true of Sojourner Truth? (Pick 3)

• Born in New York in 1797

• Traveled all over the North to preach for the Abolition movement

• Was a conductor in the Underground Railroad

• There is a statue of her in Washington D.C.

The Underground Railroad

• The Underground Railroad was an organization of abolitionists who created a network of hiding places and freedom trails for slaves to escape

• Conductors would lead the escaped slaves at night sometimes using the stars for navigation.

• During the day they would stop at stations in the form of barns and attics to hide from the slave catchers

• Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave herself and led over 300 people to freedom and was a spy for the Union army during the Civil War

• The South offered a $40,000 reward for her capture and she still went back into the South 19 times

Multiple Choice

What was Harriet Tubman's role to free the slaves?

• Conductor

• Operated a safe house or station

• Cleared paths or freedom trails

Multiple Select

Which of these is true of Harriet Tubman? (Pick 3)

• Her father was a slave owner and overseer of a plantation

• Rescued over 300 people from slavery via the Underground Railroad

• Escaped in 1849 to Philadelphia

• She worked for the Union Army during the Civil War

Opposition to Ending Slavery

• Many white northerners did not want slaves freed and did not want them taking their jobs if they moved into northern cities and towns

• The House of Representatives put a gag rule on talking about ending slavery and John Q. Adams led the fight to end that gag rule

• Southern slave owners argued that they needed slaves to keep their farms and plantations working and did not want Northerners telling them how to handle their business

Multiple Choice

A gag rule was used in the House of Representatives to keep representatives from talking about abolishing slavery.

• True

• False