Abolitionist/Reform Movement Quiz

Angelina Grimke

• concerned dad would go to hell- grew up on a slave plantation

• book: “American slavery as it is”

• advocated for women’s rights- women’s rights movement

William Lloyd Garrison

• strong Christianity

• published newspaper- “The Liberator”

• immediate is the only way

Frederick Douglas

• born as a slave, father was his owner

• belived education should be for everyone

• publishes newspaper- “The North Star”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• lost her child

• wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

John Brown

• founded a utopian society based on racial equality

• “bleeding Kansas”

• raid on harpers ferry

Charles Finney

• evangelism

• abolishment movement

• famous preacher who used a specific speaking style

Emerson and Thoreau

• transcendentalism

• emphasized living a simple life

• self reliance- Thoreau

Dorothea Dix

• school and prison reform

• one of the most influential of these reformers

Horace Mann

• common school movement

• became the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education

Nat Turner

• slave revolts

• led a rebellion that killed almost 60 white people: “Nat Turner’s Rebellion”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• women’s suffrage movement

• held the first women’s rights convention assembled at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848

used violence in his protests

John Brown

who said “I WILL BE HEARD”

william Lloyd garrison