Abolition & Suffrage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is well known because she fought for ...

• slavery

• women's suffrage

• popular sovereignty

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments" state?

• Men and women should be treated equally under the law.

• It is wrong for slaves to be treated as property.

• Girls have the same right to an education as boys.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and ________________ formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B. Anthony

Who was arrested for trying to vote?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

True or False:

The 15th Amendment gave women and black men the right to vote.

• True

• False, it gave only black men the right to vote.

• False, it gave only women the right to vote.

The _______ Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.

• 15th

• 17th

• 19th

What is suffrage?

• the right to vote

• the right to own land

• the right to have slaves

Choose 2 statements that are TRUE about Frederick Douglass.

• He did not know how to read or write.

• He was raised by his grandmother until he was 6.

• He escaped slavery by dressing as a sailor and borrowing a friend's papers.

• He was caught and returned to his owner.

Choose 3 statements that are TRUE about Frederick Douglass.

• Frederick wrote a book about his life as a slave.

• Frederick settled in Maryland after escaping.

• He went to Great Britain to get away from slave catchers.

• He returned to America after friends raised the money to buy his freedom.

Isabella Baumfree is more commonly known as

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth