Abolitionist

Question 1

2. What was the Underground Railroad? What were the “conductors”, “passengers”, and “stations”?

Answer 1

A network of scape routes used by slaves to scape to the North.
Conductors: people who sled slaves north.
Passengers: we’re the slaves.
Stations: were the hiding places along the route.

Question 2

Name 5 groups that made up most of the abolitionist movement.

Answer 2

Ministers
Quakers
Women
Ex-slaves
Free-blacks

Question 3

Why was slavery dying out in the USA by the 1700’s?

Answer 3

Because it was not profitable

Question 4

What allowed all states in the USA after the American Revolution to decide for themselves if they wanted to end slavery.

Answer 4

Webster comprise

Question 5

What 2 things made William Lloyd Garrisons’ plan to set the slaves free so radical?

Answer 5

1. Immediate and complete emancipation

2. Granting of citizenship for blacks

Question 6

Three reasons why many northerners opposed to the abolitionist movement.

Answer 6

1. Blacks took away jobs.
2. The issue could destroy the union
3. Racial Prejudice

Question 7

What was the turning point in the American history of slavery?

Answer 7

Cotton gin was invented

Question 8

Why did all the north states end slavery soon after the American Revolution?

Answer 8

Because it was against the principles that America was based upon.

Question 9

After 1830, why did southerners go from calling slavery a “necessary evil” to a “positive good”?

Answer 9

Because slavery became more than profitable

Question 10

Why did the abolitionist movement begin soon after the American Revolution?

Answer 10

Because it was against the moral principles found in the Declaration of Independence.

Question 11

Explain the plan of the American Colonization Society to free the slaves: Give the reasons why it did not work:

Answer 11

It was meant to buy slaves from their owners and send them to Africa in a ship.
Did not work because:
Was too expensive
Most slaves did not want to go to Africa.

Question 12

Benjamin Lundy

Answer 12

Started the first abolitionist newspaper

Question 13

William Lloyd garrison

Answer 13

Edited an anti-slavery journal called “The Liberator”.

Question 14

Frederick Douglass:

Answer 14

Former slave who became the most powerful speaker for the movement- edited the anti-slavery newspaper “The North Star”

Question 15

Angelina Grimke

Answer 15

Her sister and herself were the first shouter ears to work in the movement

Question 16

Harriet Tubman

Answer 16

Most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

Question 17

Sojourner Truth

Answer 17

Former slave - abolitionist speaker (later became SDA)

Question 18

David Walker

Answer 18

Called the Slaves to fight for freedom instead of wait for it.

Question 19

Nat turner

Answer 19

Led the bloody uprising in Virginia

Question 20

Elijah p. Lovejoy

Answer 20

First white abolitionist - martyr

Question 21

John brown

Answer 21

Try to end slavery by lead in an armed revolt in the USA

Question 22

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 22

Wrote My Uncle Tom’s cabin, anti-slavery book.

Question 23

William wilberforce

Answer 23

Ended slavery in UK

Question 24

Wendell Phillips

Answer 24

Known as the “Golden Trumpet” of the abolitionist movement

Question 25

Eli Whitney

Answer 25

Inventor of the cotton gin

Question 26

Antebellum

Answer 26

Pre-civil war period

Question 27

Emancipation

Answer 27

Freeing of all slaves

Question 28

Abolition

Answer 28

Moviment to end slavery

Question 29

Wage slaves:

Answer 29

Workers in factories in the north

Question 30

List three reasons why southerners gave in justifying slavery

Answer 30

1. The Bible condones slavery
2. Slaves were treated better than factory workers in the north.
3. Slaves could not take care of themselves.