Sojourner Truth

Today Sojourner Truth is remembered for her .....

• strength

• endurance

• strength and resilience

• strength and endurance

Truth was part of the first group of women inducted in the .....

What are two causes that Sojourner Truth dedicated her life to?

• African American rights and women's rights

• Speaking about her children and teaching them to read

• Being pro-slavery and anti-women

Why was Sojourner Truth an important historical figure?

• She was Harriet Beecher Stowe's friend and helped write Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• She was an inspirational orator, abolitionist, and fought for women's rights.

• She was Pro-slavery and convinced African Americans to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

• She escaped from slavery and ran away to be free in the North.

In her moving speech at the Women's Rights Conference in 1851 she coined (started) which saying?

• "Freedom at Last"

• "Ain't I Woman?"

• "Cast your Vote"

How did Sojouner Truth help the Women's Rights movement?

• She spoke out about her experiences as a woman and a slave

• she helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

• She organized a Convention to support Women's Rights

In paragraph 5 of her famous speech, "Ain't I a Women?", why does Truth make the following statement? "I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me!"

• Truth is displaying her religious beliefs.

• She is reminding her audience that she has spent most of her life alone.

• She is wanting her audience to understand her pain and suffering.

• She is hoping people will help her find her children.

Truth's purpose for giving her famous "Ain't I a Women" speech was

• To persuade the listener to listen to how beautiful she speaks.

• To persuade the listener to fight for equal rights for men and women

• To persuade the listener to leave the confederacy and rejoin the Union.

Read the excerpt from Sojourner Truth's speech, "Nobody ever helped me into carriages or over mud-puddles..."

We can infer about Sojourner that....

• she needs a man

• she didn't depend on anyone

• her kids helped her alot.

Sojourner Truth was one of the first African-American women to do what?

• Became a physician.

• Win a court case against a white man.

• Fight in the Civil war.

• Get elected to Congress.