Reform Movement Figures

Question 1

Benjamin Lundy

Answer 1

White abolitionist
Universal Emancipation
Wrote Anti-Slavery articles
Looking for territory to resettle free black people

Question 2

Paul Cuffe

Answer 2

Free black
Started the American Colonization Society
Bring free black people back to Africa- Sierra Leon
Many free black people disagreed: didn’t know anything about Africa, didn’t want to be enslaved there
Very expensive idea

Question 3

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 3

White abolitionist
Immediate Abolition of slavery
Liberator Newspaper
New England Anti-Slavery Society

Question 4

Elijah Lovejoy

Answer 4

Killed by proslavery man
First white person to die over slavery
Alton Observer newspaper

Question 5

Frederick Douglas

Answer 5

Used to be enslaved
Most well known
North Star Newspaper
54th Mass All Black Regiment Civil War

Question 6

Harriet Tubman

Answer 6

Underground Railroad “Conductor”

Question 7

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 7

Uncle Tom’s Cabin - book about what it was like to be a slave

Question 8

Denmark Vesey

Answer 8

1822 free black man
Take an arsenal - arm the slaves
Failed idea, never happened because someone told their owner

Question 9

Nat Turner

Answer 9

1831 Virginia
killed 60 people
take an arsenal in Virginia

Question 10

John Brown

Answer 10

1859 White abolitionist
Harper’s Ferry VA Arsenal
Never happened because he was arrested before it could

Question 11

Amistad

Answer 11

1839 Spanish slave ship
had a slave rebellion onboard
ship ends up in the US

Question 12

13th Amendment

Answer 12

abolition of slavery

Question 13

Transcendentalism

Answer 13

Philosophical
The belief of nature becomes religion
American literature

Question 14

Emerson

Answer 14

father of transcendentalism and American literature`
wrote essays

Question 15

Henry D Thoreau

Answer 15

Wrote a book called Walden
wanted to be as close to nature as possible
against materialism
Wrote Civil Disobedience, protest against the US inspired Gandhi and MLK

Question 16

Emily Dickinson

Answer 16

Wrote a poem called “I taste a liquor never brewed”

Question 17

Walt Whitman

Answer 17

Leaves of Grass
form of poetry that doesn’t rhyme

Question 18

Herman Melville

Answer 18

Didn’t agree with Transcendentalism
Wrote Moby Dick

Question 19

Thomas Cole

Answer 19

Painter with transcendental themes
Founded the Hudson River School of Art

Question 20

Jasper Cropsey and Albert Bierstadt

Answer 20

Traveled west to paint nature landscapes

Question 21

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 21

Womens Suffragist
Declaration of Sentiments - mimicked the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention

Question 22

Susan B Anthony

Answer 22

Womens Suffragist
Voted illegally in 1872 presidential election