Abolitionism Flashcards
What did William Lloyd Garrison do?
- Abolitionist
- wrote “The Liberator” 1831
- Burned copy of the Constitution
Main abolitionists:
- Theodore Dwight Weld
- David Walker
- Sojourner Truth
- Frederick Douglas
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Transcendentalists such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who was Frederick Douglas?
- 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.
What influence did the Second Great Awakening have on abolitionism?
- Influenced many reforms, especially the abolitionist movement
- It inspired many abolitionists to fight for the cause.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nat Turners
Virginian slave who started a revolt and killed 55 white people.
What inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Theodore Dwight Weld’s “American Slavery As It Is”
What was it considered?
The start of the Civil War
What did Garrison call for?
- Called for immediate emancipation
- Called for free states to secede
What was founded in 1833 to oppose slavery?
the American Anti-slavery Society
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society for?
It was founded in 1833 to oppose slavery.
What did Sojourner Truth do?
advocated for black emancipation and women’s rights
What silenced the voice of white abolitionism and was a series of emancipation setbacks?
the nullification crisis of 1832
What was the nullification crisis of 1832?
It was a series of emancipation setbacks and it silenced the voices of white abolitionism
What was the Gag Resolution?
It required all antislavery materials to be tabled without debate in the House.
What was the Tallmadge Amendment?
- It said no more slaves could be brought in to Missouri
- provided for the gradual emancipation of children born to enslaved parents there [Missouri]
Who opposed the Tallmadge Amendment?
- Southerners
- Pioneers
- Many Northeners
What was the Tallmadge Amendment a response to?
Missouri wanted to be admitted as a slave state
What did the South see the Tallmadge Amendment as?
A threat to the sectional balance as they wanted to protect their interests (esp. regarding slavery)
What did Southerners want to do and why?(regarding balance)
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
What was Missouri the first of?
It was the first state from the Louisiana Purchase
What was Free Soil?
No extension of slavery into western territory
No extension of slavery into western territory
Free Soil
Nat Turners Rebellion
Southern Rebellion against slavery sled by free black Nat Turner; Rebellion was defeated in 1831 but was still successful
American Colonization Society 1817
founded to transport blacks back to Africa
Republic of Liberia
established 1822 on the west coast of Africa as a place for slaves
Why did the slave refuges’ fail?
because many blacks thought of themselves as American and they didn’t want to go back to Africa
Republic of Liberia
- Was created for former slaves in Africa but few of them wanted to go because they were already accustomed to America.
American Colonization Society
- Made to colonize former slaves in Africa.
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
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.
