Abolitionist Leaders
She escaped slavery and became famous for helping others escape using the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The belief that slavery is morally wrong and should be ended
abolition
The secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
A law that required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their "owners".
Fugitive Slave Act
He was a formerly enslaved person who became a powerful speaker and writer against slavery.
Frederick Douglass
The idea that all people deserve freedom and equal rights.
equality
The 1848 meeting that focused on women’s rights and included many abolitionists.
Seneca Falls Convention
The amendment that officially ended slavery in the United States.
Thirteenth Amendment
This white abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a slave revolution
John Brown
The belief that slavery should be ended immediately not gradually.
immediate abolitionism
The violent attack led by John Brown in 1859.
Harpers Ferry raid
The amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
Fourteenth Amendment
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin a novel that helped change public opinion about slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The idea that citizens should peacefully resist unjust laws
civil disobedience
The executive order that declared enslaved people free in Confederate states.
Emancipation Proclamation
The amendment that protected voting rights regardless of race
Fifteenth Amendment
He was an early abolitionist who published the newspaper The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
The belief that no human should be owned as property
human dignity
The war between the North and South that ended slavery
American Civil War
Laws passed by Southern states after the Civil War to restrict Black Americans’ rights.
Jim Crow laws