Open-Notes Test: Historical Figures

Which historical figure helped over 300 enslaved people escape via the Underground Railroad?

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Susan B. Anthony

This Supreme Court Chief Justice established the principle of judicial review.

• John Marshall

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Horace Mann

• Tecumseh

Who was a former enslaved person that became an abolitionist and gave the speech "Ain’t I a Woman?"

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

• Lucretia

This leader of the Sauk and Fox tribes resisted U.S. land seizures.

• Tecumseh

• Black Hawk

• Daniel Boone

• Frederick Douglass

Which woman co-wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and advocated for women’s suffrage?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Tubman

Who founded The Liberator, a prominent anti-slavery newspaper?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• John Marshall

Who worked to reform public education and is known as the "Father of American Public Education"?

• Horace Mann

• John Marshall

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dorothea Dix

Which abolitionist published The North Star and was an advisor to Abraham Lincoln?

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman

This woman fought for the humane treatment of the mentally ill and prison reform.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Dorothea Dix

• Lucretia Mott

Write the name of the correct historical figure next to the description.

• Explored and settled Kentucky, blazing the Wilderness Road.

• Frederick Douglass

• An enslaved man who became a powerful speaker and writer against slavery.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Helped reform education to make it more accessible to all children.

• Daniel Boone

• Organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights.

• Horace Mann

• A Native American leader who resisted U.S. expansion and died in battle.

• Tecumseh