Abolitionism Flashcards

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What did William Lloyd Garrison do?

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  • Abolitionist
  • wrote “The Liberator” 1831
  • Burned copy of the Constitution
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Main abolitionists:

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  • Theodore Dwight Weld
  • David Walker
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Frederick Douglas
  • William Lloyd Garrison
  • Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who was Frederick Douglas?

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  • Frederick Douglas was a black man who ran away, bought his slavery, and spoke against slavery
  • He wrote his own autobiography and his own newspaper The North Star
  • He also turned to politics to end slavery not violence.
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What influence did the Second Great Awakening have on abolitionism?

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  • Influenced many reforms, especially the abolitionist movement
  • It inspired many abolitionists to fight for the cause.
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Nat Turners

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Virginian slave who started a revolt and killed 55 white people.

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What inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Theodore Dwight Weld’s “American Slavery As It Is”

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What was it considered?

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The start of the Civil War

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What did Garrison call for?

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  • Called for immediate emancipation
  • Called for free states to secede
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What was founded in 1833 to oppose slavery?

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the American Anti-slavery Society

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What was the American Anti-Slavery Society for?

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It was founded in 1833 to oppose slavery.

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What did Sojourner Truth do?

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advocated for black emancipation and women’s rights

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What silenced the voice of white abolitionism and was a series of emancipation setbacks?

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the nullification crisis of 1832

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What was the nullification crisis of 1832?

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It was a series of emancipation setbacks and it silenced the voices of white abolitionism

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What was the Gag Resolution?

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It required all antislavery materials to be tabled without debate in the House.

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What was the Tallmadge Amendment?

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  • It said no more slaves could be brought in to Missouri
  • provided for the gradual emancipation of children born to enslaved parents there [Missouri]
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Who opposed the Tallmadge Amendment?

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  • Southerners
  • Pioneers
  • Many Northeners
18
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What was the Tallmadge Amendment a response to?

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Missouri wanted to be admitted as a slave state

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What did the South see the Tallmadge Amendment as?

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A threat to the sectional balance as they wanted to protect their interests (esp. regarding slavery)

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What did Southerners want to do and why?(regarding balance)

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They wanted to maintain the balance of 11 free and 11 slave states and the senate giving 2 votes regardless of size to prevent northern interference of slavery

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What was Missouri the first of?

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It was the first state from the Louisiana Purchase

22
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What was Free Soil?

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No extension of slavery into western territory

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No extension of slavery into western territory

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Nat Turners Rebellion

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Southern Rebellion against slavery sled by free black Nat Turner; Rebellion was defeated in 1831 but was still successful

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American Colonization Society 1817
founded to transport blacks back to Africa
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Republic of Liberia
established 1822 on the west coast of Africa as a place for slaves
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Why did the slave refuges' fail?
because many blacks thought of themselves as American and they didn't want to go back to Africa
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Republic of Liberia
1822. Was created for former slaves in Africa but few of them wanted to go because they were already accustomed to America.
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American Colonization Society
1817. Made to colonize former slaves in Africa.
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Compromise of 1850
Many abolitionists were outraged by this because it repealed the Compromise of 1820 but most northerners then indirectly repealed the Fugitive Slave Act
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Politics
3rd parties such as the Liberty and Free Soil Party emerged with abolitionism in mind with the exception of the Free Soil Party where racist people also indulged in.