a network of people helping African Americans escape from slavery from the southern United States to the northern states or to Canada before the Civil War
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What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
an 1848 women’s rights convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in Seneca Falls, New York
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What is suffrage?
the right to vote
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Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
Harriet Jacobs
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What idea did William Lloyd Garrison support?
immediate emancipation
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Why were the Grimké sisters eyewitnesses to the cruelties of slavery?
They saw how enslaved people were treated on their family’s plantation.
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When did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention?
1869
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What right did single women have that married women did not?
the right to own property
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Which women’s rights supporter was also a free African-American abolitionist?
Sojourner Truth
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How were the views of William Lloyd Garrison and John Quincy Adams alike and different?
. Both men supported the abolition of slavery, but Garrison wanted immediate emancipation, while Adams called for gradual emancipation.
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Which facts support the idea that women were second-class citizens during the 19th century?
1) Second-class citizens who could not vote. 2) Married women could not own property or enter into contracts. 3) Earned less money than men
