Abolitionism

Question 1

What were the ideas and fate of the American Colonization Society?

Answer 1

compensated slave owner, sent freed slaves to Africa, Caribbean and Central America, eventually fades away but ideas remain

Question 2

Factors leading to the growth of Abolitionism

Answer 2

The Second Great Awakening (1801), reform in North

• religious revivalist see need for moral regeneration, slavery is a sin
• Transcendentalism: Thoreau questions constitution of slavery

Question 3

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 3

• white, journalist
  
  • publisher of The Liberator in 1831
  • helped form American Anti-Slavery Society

Question 4

Frederick Douglass

Answer 4

• slave, who escaped slavery 1838
  
  • wrote narrative on his life as slave
  • helped with newspapers, underground,

Question 5

What were William Lloyd Garrison’s arguments regarding slavery?

Answer 5

Argued that abolition of slavery shouldn’t be a gradual process
Once it was abolished, black people could assimilate into society instead of segregation like many abolitionists believed.
Slaves should have full rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Question 6

What was the role of women in the Abolitionist movement?

What was the reaction to their role?

Answer 6

Many fought for both the abolition of slavery and women’s rights, Gave speeches- controversial; many opposed to women speaking in front of mixed audiences, wrote articles, circulated petitions, Collected signatures on petitions (acceptable role for women)

Even among the Abolition movement, some people thought they were too radical
Eventually caused split of American Anti-slavery Society- those who thought it was unacceptable for women to be in leadership roles vs. those who believed in true equality

Question 7

Who were the Grimke sisters and what role did they play?

Answer 7

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were born into a southern slave-holding family but despised slavery so they moved to the North to join the abolition movement
first southern women to become known for public speaking to mixed gender audiences on behalf of abolition
demands for racial and sexual equality

Question 8

What were Lincoln and Webster’s responses to abolitionism?

Answer 8

Lincoln:
-2nd class citizens? we’d have to take care of them
-Institution already in place
-Thought that slaves could not integrate into society- wanted them to be sent back to Africa
-Gradual emancipation
-Did not claim to be an abolitionist because of political status- too extreme
Webster
-Started as pretty much an abolitionist but changed his mind about the movement
-Claimed it was too extremist and they were going nowhere
-Wanted to preserve Union as whole and supported the Compromise of 1850

Question 9

How many free whites were there in slave states and free states in 1860?

Answer 9

Free states: 20 million

Slave states: 11 million

Question 10

How many slaves were there in the South in 1860?

Answer 10

4 million

Question 11

Which slave states remained in the Union?

Answer 11

Missouri
Kentucky
Maryland
Delaware
WEST Virginia