Check Understanding: Reform Movements

What was the main goal of the Abolition movement in the 1800s?

• To promote educational opportunities

• To end women's suffrage

• To increase property rights

• To immediately end all slavery

What did the Seneca Falls Convention of 1841 issue?

• The Liberator Newspaper

• The Declaration of Sentiments

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Emancipation Proclamation

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A network that helped slaves escape to freedom

• A movement to promote women's education

• A transportation system for goods

• A newspaper published by abolitionists

What was a common method used by Suffragettes to promote their cause?

• Developing new educational curricula

• Organizing protests, marches, and speeches

• Publishing scientific papers

• Creating art installations

Match the Abolitionist to thier discritpition:

• Harriet Tubman

• Lead enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

• Frederick Douglass

• Published The Laborator & called for immedeate emancipation.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Published the North Star & worked for African American and women's rights.

Match the Suffragette to her description:

• Sojourner Truth

• National advocate for equality and justice.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Advocate for Women's suffrage and equality for all.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Leader in Women's Suffrage & an Abolitionist.

Suffrage is the...

• right to vote in an election.

• right to campaign for a public office.

• suffering caused by others.

• freedom from enslavement.

The Women's Suffrage Movment is:

• Reform movmeent that called for the immedeate end to slavery.

• Reform movment that worked to gain women the right to vote.

• Reform movment that worked to end segrigation the the United States.

• Reform movment that called for equal rights and citizenship of Native Americans.

The Abolitionist Movment is:

• Reform movmeent that called for the immedeate end to slavery.

• Reform movment that worked to gain women the right to vote.

• Reform movment that worked to end segrigation the the United States.

• Reform movment that called for equal rights and citizenship of Native Americans.

Freedom from enslavement is...

• Abolition

• Suffrage

• Emancipation

• Proclamation