abolition

Three important Abolitionist leaders were:

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglass

• Barack Obama

Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong because of what three things?

• Morally wrong

• Cruel and inhumane

• Violated principals of democracy

• There was nothing wrong with slavery

Harriet Tubman...

• lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

• Wrote the Liberator newspaper, and worked for emancipation.

• Wrote the North Star newspaper, and worked for rights for African Americans and women.

This person worked for rights for African Americans and women to better their lives. He also started a famous newspaper called The North Star.

• Frederick Douglass

• John Adams

• William Lloyd Garrison

• James Monroe

Frederick Douglass...

• lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

• Wrote the Liberator newspaper, and worked for emancipation.

• Wrote the North Star newspaper, and worked for rights for African Americans and women.

Leaders of the Abolition Movement believed that slavery was morally wrong, cruel and inhumane and that it violated the principles of...

• Suffrage

• Confederation

• Independence

• Democracy

This person is known for his newspaper called The Liberator. He worked for the immediate freeing of all slaves

• Frederick Douglass

• Liberace

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown

___________ brought Africans to the New World to work for white land owners

• Slavery

• American Government

• The Town Council

• Quakers

What were reasons that Northerners did not want Free African Americans living in their cities? Check all that apply

• Fear African Americans would take their jobs

• They sided with the South on the issue of slavery

• They felt that African Americans should live in the South only because the North was too cold

• African Americans were not equal to white people

William Lloyd Garrison...

• lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the Underground Railroad.

• Wrote the Liberator newspaper, and worked for emancipation.

• Wrote the North Star newspaper, and worked for rights for African Americans and women.