Important People of the Civil War

What is an ABOLITIONIST?

• Someone who believes that all men are created equal. Does not believe in slavery.
• Someone who believes that not all men are created equal. Does believe in slavery.
• Someone who wanted to abolish homework.
• Someone who was from another country to find work and live in the United States.

Created an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator"

• Harriet Tubbman
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth
• Fredrick Douglas

This man used newspapers to tell everyone that slavery was wrong and should be abolished immediately.

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth
• Fredrick Douglas
• John Brown

Along with many other abolitionists, they created a society that tried to emancipate slavery. What was this society called?

• American Anti-Slavery Society
• Slavery Society
• Society of Slave Owners
• Society of Slave Abololitionists

Was the 1st African American woman to gain recognition as an anti-slavery speaker.

• Harriet Tubbman
• Sojourner Truth
• John Brown
• Fredrick Douglas

Eventually worked for President Lincoln as a counselor for freedmen in Washington during the Civil War. 

• Harriet Tubbman
• Sojourner Truth
• John Brown
• Rosa Parks

He was an escaped slave who published an antislavery newspaper called "The North Star"

• Fredrick Douglas
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• John Brown

Known as the "Moses" of her people and was one of the most successful "conductors" of the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• John Brown

Wrote a book called "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It became a best seller and revealed the cruelty of slavery to many Northerners.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• Fredrick Douglas
• William Lloyd Garrison

What president gave the order for the Emancipation Proclamation?

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Confederate president Jefferson Davis

• Andrew Johnson