Reform Era Quiz

Master the Antebellum Reform Era! Quiz on key figures like Garrison, Douglass, and Tubman, plus movements like abolitionism and women's rights.

Match the term to the definition or the name to the description. William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator newspaper and organized the New England Anti-Slavery Society Frederick Douglass published The North Star; escaped slave Sojourner Truth "Ain't I a Woman?" speech; escaped slavery Grimke sisters they freed several of their family's slaves and wrote American Slavery As It Is, also spoke out for women's rights 1807 Congress banned the slave trade-no new slaves into the US American Colonization Society Started a colony in West Africa called Liberia and sent freed slaves there (not very successful) Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that depicted harsh realities of slavery Harriet Tubman escaped slave that was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad and helped many slaves escape to the North Second Great Awakening Time of spiritual revival when people looked to improve the lives of others and churches began to stress free will Reform to change Temperance Movement movement to drastically reduce the amount of alcohol being consumed Seneca Falls Convention 1848 began the Women's Right Movement and the Declaration of Sentiments was signed there Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B Anthony organized Seneca Falls Convention and sought to get women equal rights Dorothea Dix Reformer for criminals and mentally ill Transcendentalism Reform movement of the arts that believed in the goodness or people and nature John James Audobon famous for painting birds Hudson River School painters painted scenes of life along the Hudson River in New York Walt Whitman poet credited with creating American free verse; Leaves of Grass Henry David Thoreau wrote essay called Civil Disobedience and novel called Walden. Protested taxes