women suffrage and abolitionist review

Multiple Choice

Suffrage means the right to _______________.

• own a firearm

• vote in political elections

• practice your religion

• free speech

• The 19th Amendment is passed.
• Women receive voting rights for the first

time.

1924

• Native Americans are given rights as

citizens, including the right to vote.

1920

Multiple Choice

As a result of the suffrage movement

• slavery was abolished.

• the 19th Amendment was passed

• women achieved equal pay

• women were allowed to drive.

Multiple Choice

Susan B. Anthony wanted....

• the colonists to be free from British rule.

• to be the first woman president

• to be a nurse

• all women to have the right to vote

Multiple Choice

Susan B. Anthony worked with _____________ when she fought for women's rights?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Fredrick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

Multiple Choice

Stanton worked to get the 19th amendment passed, which was the right for women to vote.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What was Susan B. Anthony arrested for?

• giving a speech to promote woman's suffrage

• trying to vote in the 1872 presidential election

• making signs to promote woman's suffrage

• sneaking into a library to find books about woman's suffrage

Multiple Choice

How did Harriet Tubman help slaves?

• She helped injured and sick slaves hurt their masters.

• She brought food to the slaves who were starving.

• She offered the escaped slaves a place to live.

• She helped them escape through the Underground Railroad.

Multiple Choice

True or False:

The Underground Railroad was actually a railroad that ran from the South to Canada.

• True

• False

One of the key speakers at the women’s rights
conference in Akron, Ohio, was Sojourner Truth.
•Sojourner…

•

born into slavery

•

escaped at age 29

•

became a traveling preacher at age 46

•

Spoke out against slavery

•

Spoke out in favor of women’s rights

•

Became famous for her “And Ain’t I a
Woman?” speech at the Akron, Ohio
convention

Sojourner Truth

Multiple Select

What hardships does Truth describe enduring as a slave in "Ain't I a Woman?" Choose two options.

• being denied an education

• being whipped

• being sold repeatedly

• seeing her children sold

• seeing her husband killed

Multiple Choice

To whom is Truth comparing herself in this sentence from "Ain't I a Woman?" "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place!"

• white men

• white women

• black men

• black women

Multiple Choice

At the end of her speech, what does Truth say women should be able to do?

• march for their rights

• turn the world right side up

• make a very loud racket

• join the abolitionist cause

Multiple Choice

Which of the following women was born into slavery and later became a speaker for abolition( ending slavery) and women's rights?

• Harriet Tubman

• Lucretia Mott

• Sojourner Truth

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Multiple Choice

What was Sojourner Truth's famous speech?

• "Ain't I a Mother"

• "Ain't I a Human"

• "Ain't I a Woman"

Frederick Douglass

Abolitionist

From Slavery to Freedom

• Douglass successfully escaped slavery on

September 3, 1838, boarding a train to
Maryland, dressed in a sailor's uniform and
carrying identification papers provided by a free
black seaman.

• His escape to freedom eventually led him to New

York, the entire journey taking less than 24
hours. Douglass "officially" won his freedom
when British sympathizers paid the slaveholder
who legally still owned him.

Meeting the President

• Douglass met with President Abraham Lincoln in

1863 on the treatment of black soldiers, and with
President Andrew Johnson on the subject of
black suffrage.

• Suffrage is the civil right to vote, or the exercise

of that right.

• Douglas also wanted equality for his people as

well. He and Lincoln worked together providing
plans to move liberated slaves out of the South
once the war was over.

Multiple Choice

Frederick Douglass was friends with this U.S. president.

• Barack Obama

• George W. Bush

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

Multiple Choice

Frederick Douglass escaped by pretending to be a _________ and traveled north.

• sailor

• carpenter

• blacksmith

• slave

Multiple Choice

Frederick Douglass was friends with this U.S. president.

• Barack Obama

• George W. Bush

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

Multiple Choice

A person who believed in getting rid of slavery was called ______________.

• an abolitionist

• a soldier

• a civilian

Multiple Choice

What does the word abolish mean?

• continue

• get-rid-of

• organize