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Worksheet time: 10mins
What term was used to describe a person who wanted to see slavery come to an end?
a liberator
a federalist
a loyalist
an abolitionist
What was the purpose of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
to help slaves escape
to get revenge against former owners
to describe what freedom is like
to inform others about slavery
Why did William Lloyd Garrison publish The Liberator?
He published this newspaper to help women gain more rights.
He wrote this newspaper as an autobiography to share the horrors of slavery.
He published this newspaper to share that slavery was wrong and should be abolished.
He published this newspaper to show his support for slavery and slave labor in the South.
What do Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman have in common?
They all started schools for African-American children.
They all published newspapers supporting voting rights for women.
They were all factory owners during the Industrial Revolution.
They were all slaves who escaped and worked to end slavery.
Who was the first African-American woman to become well-known as an anti-slavery speaker?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Virginia Brown
This poster announces a special meeting. Who would have most likely put up this poster during the Antebellum Era?
an abolitionist
a plantation owner
a southern politician
a slave trader
What was one consequence of the completion of the Erie Canal?
It created stronger economic ties between the Northeast and the Midwest.
It increased economic incentives for states to end slavery.
It led to increased trade between the North and the South.
It created a need for a strong naval presence near the nation’s northern border.
This is an excerpt from a document written in 1848:
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed.... The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
This document marks the start of which movement?
abolition
education reform
temperance
women’s rights
This list includes several important people in American history:
Frederick Douglass
Elihu Embree
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Which title best completes this chart?
Abolitionist Leaders
African American Reformers
Leaders of the Women’s Movement
Underground Railroad Operators
During the Second Great Awakening...
the church declined.
emphasized original sin and reliance on the church for salvation.
there was no tolerance for different religions.
emphasize hard work as a way to achieve salvation.
Tennessean __________ published The Emancipator, which was the first publication in the U.S. that was only about the anti-slavery cause.
Elihu Embree
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Nathan Bedford Forrest
________________ traveled the country and told her story of being a slave and what being enslaved meant to her children.
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
___________ and _____________ started the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth
Former slave, ___________, published both an autobiography and an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star.
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Elihu Embree
A journalist named ___________ published an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Nat Turner
Elihu Embree
Many historians believe the __________ was the beginning of the modern American women's movement.
Declaration of Sentiments
Stanton Movement
Seneca Falls Convention
Convention of Women
Both ________ and __________ organized the first women's rights convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott
Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The first women's convention was held in __________ to declare that women should have equal rights to men, including the right to vote.
London
Seneca Falls
Pennsylvania
New York City
Inspired by the Second Great Awakening, the ______________ sought to reshape American society.
Reform Era
temperance movement
transcendentalist movement
Change movement
During the ___________ in the 1820s and 1830s, religion grew in North America and by the 1850s twice as many Americans attended church than they had at the birth of the country.
Second Great Awakening
Reform Era
First Great Awakening
temperance movement
