What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the anti-slavery movement?

• As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, she led many fugitive slaves to freedom.

• She lectured members of the American Anti-Slavery Society about the evils of slavery.

• As the founder of a southern anti-slavery group, she helped stage many peaceful slave strikes.

• She wrote many essays persuading southern slaveholders to join the abolition movement.

What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?

• They had each learned to read and write as children, despite laws against it.

• The Anti-Slavery Society invited each of them to give regular lectures.

• They were both former slaves who contributed to the abolitionist cause.

• The autobiography was their chosen form for exposing the injustices of slavery.

Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to

• Teaching religion.

• Eliminating slavery.

• Helping people in prison.

• Establishing public schools.

Who said the following quote?

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men- the balance wheel of the social machinery.”

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Dorothea Dix

• Frederick Douglass

• Horace Mann

Which group was focused on eliminating slavery?

• Politicians

• Abolitionists

• Missionaries

• Transcendentalists

The ________________ was a movement of Christian renewal that swept through the United States during the 1790s and the early 1800s.

• Great Awakening

• Second Great Awakening

• Temperance Movement

• Common-School Movement

How did the “Second Great Awakening” promote social reform?

• Participants believed that conditions on Earth could NOT be improved.

• Participants grew tired of religion and became social reformers instead.

• Participants wanted to apply Christian beliefs to important social issues.

• Participants were no longer concerned with their own personal salvation.

Which of these was the model for the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?

• Bill of Rights

• Monroe Doctrine

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 was significant because it

• Forced the government to discuss petitions against slavery.

• Marked the start of the organized women’s rights movement.

• Granted women the right to participate in the voting process.

• Revealed the need for temperance and educational reforms.

Which of these was an obstacle for women who were working to end slavery in the United States?

• They were not allowed to vote.

• They were not allowed to attend school.

• They could not voice their opinions.

• They could not travel throughout the country.