Abolitionist and Suffragist Movements

Abolitionists demanded.....

• immediate freeing of slaves
• freedom to practice their religion
• equal rights for women

Abolitionists believed that....

• slavery should end gradually so as not to hurt southern economy
• slavery should be legal only in the south
• slavery was morally wrong, cruel, inhumane and undemocratic and slaves should be freed immediately

Which of the following was NOT an abolitionist leader?

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
• Patrick Henry
• 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 and ran off with them"

• Harriet Tubman
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass

The abolitionist movement emerged in the....

• south
• northeast
• west

Choose the following statement about the Underground Railroad that is NOT correct.

• The "Underground Railroad" was a system of secret escape routes leading from the South to free states in the North or in Canada.
• The "Underground Railroad" was a series of underground tunnels and overland trains that served as escape routes for runaway slaves
• "Conductors" or helpers along the Underground Railroad, led slaves from one hiding place to the next.

Which statement about Harriet Tubman is correct?

• Harriet Tubman became a well-known abolitionist leader because of her daring escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad
• 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
• Tubman, like most other conductors on the Underground Railroad, was a white northerner who opposed slavery

In his newspaper "The Liberator", this white abolitionist leader called for the 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!"

• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Thomas Paine

Which of these abolitionist leaders was NOT an escaped slave himself?

• Harriet Tubman
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass

True or False - Many leaders of the women's rights movement were also abolitionist.

• True
• False