2023-01-06 Flashcards
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
The vast majority of white people in the South owned how many slaves?
None
How many free blacks were there in 1860?
250,000
In what group were there radicals who wanted to outlaw slavery immediately and free all current slaves?
Early Abolitionists
Who was one of the most radical abolitionists and was despised by many southerners?
William Llyod Garrision
What did Garrison write?
The Liberator
Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did Henry Ward Beecher do to help the slaves in the south?
Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony
Who led a bloody rebellion of slaves in Virginia and was eventually hanged?
Nat Turner
Who was a mulatto who was a slave and managed to escape?
Fredrick Douglass
What was Douglass’s abolitionist newspaper?
The North Star
What was the solution that was being considered in the mid-19th century that entailed relocating all the slaves to Africa?
The American Colonization Society
