Abolitionist and Suffrage Movement Quiz

Match the following descriptions with the correct historical figure.

• A suffragist.

• A person who ignored women wanting the right to vote.

• A neutral party during the slavery debate.

• A person who ignored the issue of slavery and didn’t take a side.

• An abolitionist.

• A person who fought for women to have the right to vote.

• An individual indifferent to women's suffrage.

• A person who fought for slavery to end.

Which of these describes the people who were a part of the women’s suffrage movement?

• They fought for women to have the right to vote.

• They ignored the issue of slavery and didn’t take a side.

• They ignored women wanting the right to vote.

• They fought for slavery to end.

This person escaped slavery when they were 21. They gave important speeches on the evils of slavery. They wrote a newspaper called the North Star, as well as an autobiography explaining what slavery was like growing up.

• Sojourner Truth

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

This person fought for the right for women to vote. They were a leader in the National Woman Suffrage Association. They decided to vote illegally in an election and was arrested for it. When the nineteenth amendment was passed, it was named after this person.

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojourner Truth

• Susan B Anthony

(a)   escaped slavery and later went on to help others escape as well. They were a conductor of the underground railroad and helped around 300 people escape from slavery. They were also known as “Black Moses”.

• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B Anthony
• Sojourner Truth
• Frederick Douglass

This person was an activist in both the women’s suffrage and abolitionist movement. They gave speeches for both movements across the country.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubmen

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

This person was a part of the Women’s Suffrage movement and worked alongside Susan B. Anthony.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

The underground railroad was:

• a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape into free states and Canada.

• a subway system built in the 19th century.

• a railroad company that operated underground trains.

• a secret society of railroad workers.

What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?

• It freed people from slavery.

• It gave African Americans the right to vote.

• It gave women the right to vote.

• It allowed women to run for president.