Slavery & Abolitionists
Reform Movements
more abolition questions
Abolition miscellaneous
100

this man escaped slavery, fled to Massachusetts, became an abolitionist, & wrote an autobiography

Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
In the Antebellum era, married women were seen under the law as property of this person:
Who is the husband?
100
Fill in the blank: "In many places in the Antebellum era, you had to be ____________________ in order to vote"
What is "white" or "male"?
100
Under the law, enslaved people were considered to be this:
What is property?
200
This woman, a fugitive slave, rescued many people on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Name one thing a woman couldn't do in the Antebellum era.
What is?

-go to college

-vote or hold office

-become doctors

-keep the kids in a divorce, etc.

200
This enslaved man and preacher led a slave rebellion in 1831 that ended in the deaths of 60 whites and all participants in the rebellion.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
According to several students in FOA, Mr. Donnelly looks like this abolitionist:
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
This invention led to an increase in the demand for slave labor
What is the cotton gin?
300
This was the area of reform that Horace Mann was working in:
What is education?
300
Name one abolitionist who wanted equal rights for African Americans
Who is Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker?
300
She spent 7 years hiding out in the attic of her grandmother's shed to escape the abuse of her slave owner
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
400
This white abolitionist published the newspaper "The Liberator"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
Most reform movements (education, abolition, women's rights, crime reduction, etc) were inspired by this:
What is religion or their churches?
400
People who believed in "colonization" wanted to emancipate slaves and do this with them:
What is send or re-settle them in Africa?
400
In the documentary we watched, historian Nell Irvin Painter claims that in the Antebellum US, this right was increasingly reserved for white people
What is voting (or political participation)?
500
This free black man published an "Appeal" to encourage slaves to rise up and fight for freedom.
Who is David Walker?
500
Name one specific improvement made to education in the Antebellum era
What is: standardized curriculum, teacher training, tax-funded public schools
500
This African American minister founded the activist church, African Methodist Episcopal Church
Who is Richard Allen?
500

This law passed by Congress made it so anti-slavery petitions would not be discussed.

What is the gag rule?