Abolitionist Movement

These events describe which famous woman?

• Lucy Stone

• Matilda J. Gage

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which two women were influential in gaining women's suffrage?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Jane Addams

• Rosa Parks

• Susan B. Anthony

Which person did not lead the Suffrage Movement?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Jo Anderson

• Isabel Sojourner Truth

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches... Nobody ever helps me... And ain't I a woman?"

Soujourner Truth, Women's RIghts Convention, 1851

In this quotation Soujourner Truth is emphazing the-

• Importance of education

• unequal treatment of women

• need for equal treatment of immigrants

• differences between rich and poor

Who was the former slave and prominent abolitionist that urged Abraham Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union Army?

• Fredrick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

Harriett Tubman was often referred to as the conductor of the Underground Railroad. Why was she called this?

• She drove the train that carried escaped slaves from the South to the North.

• She arrested runaway slaves she found trying to escape.

• She accompanied slaves to help them escape.

• She provided safe houses for runaway slaves.

Fredrick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman all played leading roles in the abolitionist movement. What else did they have in common?

• They had once been slaves themselves.

• They made trips to the South to help slaves escape.

• They were known for their public speaking abilities.

• They wrote books to convince people to support their cause.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders most closely associated with which movement?

• socialism

• suffrage

• environmentalism

• nativism

Look at the graphic.

What was most likely the purpose of the meeting advertised in the graphic?

• To meet and hear famous women speak

• To argue against voting rights for women

• To support voting rights for women

• To promote the arts among women

Read the definition.

Abolish: To end the observance or effect of.

This definition describes the wishes of what group of people on the issue of slavery?

• Suffragettes

• Abolitionists

• Northerners

• Southerners