African American Terms Flashcards
An organization founded in Washington DC by prominent slave holders. It claimed to encourage the ultimate abolition of slavery by sending free African Americans to it’s west African colony of Liberia. 1812-1912
American Colonization Society
A key concept in abolitionist and northern antislavery propaganda that depicted southern slaveholders as the driving force in a political conspiracy to promote slavery at the expense of white liberties
Slave Power
African Americans who had the belief that they must seek their racial destiny by establishing separate institutions and, perhaps, migrating as a group to a location -often Africa- outside of the US
Black Nationalists
1815; Cuffe, who owned and commanded a ship, took 34 African American settlers to the free black colony of Sierra Leone, located just north of what is now Liberia
Sierra Leone & Liberia
1816-1912; The umbrella organization for immediate abolitionists during the 1830’s and the main Garrisonian organization after 1840
American Anti-slavery Society
1833-1870; A biracial abolitionist organization aligned with the American Anti-Slavery Society. White Quaker women dominated the society, but it included a significant number of black women
Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society
A tactic endorsed by the American Anti-Slavery Society during the 1830’s. It appealed to slaveholders and others to support immediate emancipation on the basis of Christian principles
Moral Suasion
A series of national, regional, and local conventions, starting in 1830, where black leaders addressed the concerns of free and enslaved blacks. Moral suasion. A primary strategy in the abolitionist movement that relied on vigorous appeals to the nations moral and Christian conscience.
Black Convention Movement
1827; Samuel Cornish began publishing the first African American newspaper. John Russwurm was his cofounder
Freedoms’ Journal
1831-1865; William Lloyd Garrison; First abolitionist newspaper to call for an immediate end to slavery; marked the beginning of a variety of anti-slavers, that was new in tone, social composition, and doctrine.
The Liberator
1847-1851; A weekly newspaper published and edited by Fredrick Douglass.
North Star (the newspaper)
1840-1848; The first antislavery political party. Most of its supporters joined the Free Soil Party in 1848, although its radical New York wing maintained a Liberty organization into the 1850’s
Liberty Party
The Mexican- American war was from 1846-1848. It was started by a dispute by the Rio Grande and the Nueces River. The Mexican- American war was the first battle on foreign soil, fueled by the desire of James K. Polk to fulfill Manifest Destiny. The Americans won the Mexican-American War, gaining the Mexican Cession and Mexico lost about one third of its territory; The Mexican Cession was what the Americans gained after the Mexican American war. We payed $15,000,000 for the cession and almost fulfilled the idea of Manifest Destiny, and also started Westward Expansion.
Mexican War (also known as Mexican Cession)
An attempt by the US Congress to settle divisive issues between the North and South, including slavery expansion, apprehension in the North of fugitive slaves, and slavery in the District of Columbia
Compromise of 1850
Part of the compromise in 1850. It required law enforcement officials as well as civilians to assist in capturing runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 & writ of habeas corpus
