Famous Abolitionists
This man escaped from slavery in Maryland and became one of the most prolific abolitionist writers and orators in the United States.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
She said, "I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What is a strike?
Total number of whiteboards in 224, not including the front board.
What is four?
Using her knowledge of the natural landscape, this formerly enslaved woman led about 70 people to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
He said, "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A time of massive wealth inequality, during which rich tycoons had more power than the U.S. government.
What is the Gilded Age?
What is 100 calories?
The amount of times Mr. Sutton has moved his desk.
What is three?
Born Isabella Baumfree, this woman changed her name after escaping slavery and went on to deliver iconic speeches like "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
He said, "But as it is, we have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What is Theory of Change?
Finishes this line from "The New Colossus": "Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe _____"
What is "free"?
The name of the law school that Mr. Sutton's fiance is currently enrolled at.
What is Villanova?
He led a raid on Harper's Ferry, WV, in an attempt to secure weapons for a general uprising of enslaved people.
Who is John Brown?
It reads, in part: "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on."
What is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?
What is a Malthusian Trap?
This is the title of photographer Jacob Riis' book that exposed Gilded Age poverty.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
Pop song that Mr. Sutton blasted for a few days in order to teach his 8th graders about contingency (you probably heard it once or twice)
What is "Unwritten"?
He wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, urging enslaved Black people to recognize their potential for armed rebellion.
Who is David Walker?
It reads, in part, "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Term for when a people scatter geographically while retaining a sense of cultural unity.
What is a diaspora?
What is the Bessemer process?
The words "Thou Mayest" above my exit are a reference to this John Steinbeck novel.
What is East of Eden?