Abolition Quiz

What literary work did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that brought attention to the brutal conditions of slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gone With the Wind
• Up From Slavery
• North and South

What secret organization helped slaves escape to freedom?

• Seneca Falls Convention
• National Freedom Road
• Underground Railroad
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

The abolitionists worked to

• give women the right to vote.
  
• grow as much cotton as possible.
  
• make slavery popular in every state.
  
• put an end to slavery.

Abolitionists believed in all of the following about slavery EXCEPT that it:

• violated the principles of democracy
• was necessary for the success of the Southern plantation
• was cruel and inhumane
• was morally wrong.

Who was the famous abolitionist who published the Liberator?

• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass 
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

• Harriet Tubman
• Lucretia Mott
• Sojourner Truth
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African Americans and women to better their lives?

• Fredrick Douglass
• Phyllis  Wheatley
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• William Lloyd Garrison

This was a Novel that showed how evil slavery was.  It helped the anti-slavery movement grow stronger

• Of Mice and Men
• Fugitives
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Life of a Slave

Abolitionists wanted what practice to end immediately?

• The Civil War

• Women's voting

• Unclean meat

• Slavery

Someone who is strongly against slavery:

• abolitionist

• overseer

• yeomen

• priest