Abolitionist and Women's Suffrage Movements

What was the main goal of the abolitionist movement?

• to give enslaved people the right to vote

• to stop slavery from spreading into new U.S. territories

• to eliminate slavery in the United States

• to help Southerners catch escaped enslaved people

Who is described by the following statements? - went to prison for calling a slave trader a robber - wrote an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator to end slavery everywhere - used The Liberator to bring attention to political events and the plight of slaves - argued for a complete and immediate end to slavery, with no compromises

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Elihu Embree

• William Lloyd Garrison

How did Frederick Douglass emerge as an abolitionist leader?

• He was an escaped slave who told the story of his life, first as a speaker and then as an author

• He was a slaveholder who changed his mind about slavery and published the first anti-slavery newspaper in the United States

• He was a politician used his connections to fight against slavery

• He was a businessman who refused to do business in the South as a protest against slavery

What primary method did Harriet Tubman use to fight for the abolitionist cause?

• She led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad

• She led abolitionist conventions

• She wrote an abolitionist newspaper

• She told her story of slavery in a book.

What did abolitionists Elihu Embree, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass have in common?

• They all represented free states in Congress

• They all published anti-slavery newspapers

• They all represented slave states in Congress

• They were all former slaves.

What was the MAIN goal of the women’s suffrage movement?

• to give women the right to own property

• to give women the right to vote

• to elect a woman president

• to give African Americans the right to vote

"He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice." —excerpt from the Declaration of Sentiments Which claim does the text best support?

• Women should be paid the same wages as men

• Women should have the right to work

• Women should have the right to own property

• Women should have the right to vote.

Which suffragist leader was refused a seat at an anti-slavery conference, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, and helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Lucretia Mott

Which suffragist leader was a formerly enslaved African American who became a nationally known speaker as she worked to improve the rights of both African Americans and women?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Lucretia Mott

Which suffragist leader campaigned for voting rights and equal rights for women, and she helped organize the National Woman Suffrage Association? (She also voted illegally!)

• Lucretia Mott

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton