Lesson 2: The Abolitionists

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Across
  1. 3. The American _____ Society planned to send free African Americans to Africa to start new lives.
  2. 4. Harriet Beecher _____ was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
  3. 5. A person who sought to end slavery in the United States.
  4. 9. Isabella _____ later changed her name to Sojourner Truth.
  5. 11. _____ Truth wrote "Slave, Prophet, Legend" because she was to declare the truth to the people.
  6. 12. Many who led the antislavery movement came from this faith.
  7. 13. William Lloyd _____ was a Massachusetts abolitionist who started a newspaper called "The Liberator."
  8. 14. The _____ Railroad was not an actual train.
  9. 17. "Freedom's _____" was the country's first African American newspaper.
  10. 18. Samuel _____ and John Russwurm started the country's first African American newspaper "Freedom's Journal."
Down
  1. 1. Slavery was necessary in the Southern _____ and allowed them to reach a high level of culture.
  2. 2. Increased the use of enslaved labor.
  3. 6. Most white _____ believed abolition threatened their way of life.
  4. 7. "Uncle Tom's _____" was a book that was banned in the south because it portrayed slavery as a cruel and brutal system.
  5. 8. The Underground _____ was a network of escape routes from the South to the North.
  6. 10. The Underground Railroad helped as many as 100,000 _____ people to escape.
  7. 15. Best known African American abolitionist is Frederick _____.
  8. 16. These states had ended slavery by the early 1800s.