Different white abolitionist groups

Question 1

Abolition

Answer 1

Legal manoeuvres did not arise on their own
Pushing into forefront by free blacks/supportive whites

Question 2

Quakers
Protestant religious sect, moved to US to escape persecution

Answer 2

Political leaders attempted to put religious beliefs into the political system
Opposed violence

Question 3

Quakers were from

Answer 3

Pennsylvania
William Penn settled the colony there

Question 4

Quakers 1775

Answer 4

Dropped out of politics due to fighting with Natives

Question 5

Quakers governmental politics withdrawal

Answer 5

Many saw themselves as the conscious of the republic

Question 6

Quakers opposed slavery

Answer 6

First society to ban slaveholding
Created decrees to help emancipation

Question 7

Quakers in the 19thC

Answer 7

Participated in abolitionist movement
Quaker women were 40% of female abolitionists

Question 8

Gradualism
The American Colonisation Society 1817 (TACS)

Answer 8

Presbyterian minister Robert Finley founded it

Question 9

TACS was typical of societies at the time

Answer 9

Banned slavery
Concerned with social order

Question 10

TACS wanted

Answer 10

Ex-slaves to emigrate back to Africa
To prevent racial arguments

Question 11

TACS advocated for

Answer 11

Gradual and voluntary end to slavery

Question 12

TACS 1822

Answer 12

Established colony in Africa called Monrovia (named after James Monroe the US president)
Settled 12000 African Americans there
Used dollars and cents as currency

Question 13

TACS colony appealed

Answer 13

To slaveholders
Could serve as a way to deport free blacks who were problematic to the plantations
High degree of support in the south

Question 14

TACS colony served as

Answer 14

An opening into abolition
Other abolitionist views tended to be more radical
Lincoln was a member
Colonisationists

Question 15

Immediatism
The American Anti-Slavery Society, 1833 (TAASS)

Answer 15

Radical voices speaking out against colonisationists
Spoke out against colonies

Question 16

TAASS and William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 16

Garrison was recruited into anti-slavery by Quakers
Wrote a gradualist newspaper

Question 17

TAASS and The Liberator

Answer 17

Newspaper by Garrison
Became the public champion of immediate abolition of slavery

Question 18

TAASS refused to

Answer 18

Deport ex-slaves
Reimburse slaveholders (were paid for the slaves they freed to the colony)

Question 19

TAASS was an

Answer 19

Umbrella group of affiliated societies

Question 20

TAASS 1850

Answer 20

200,000 white abolitionists in the north