slavery and abolition

Question 1

Why were over 100 anti-slavery societies advocating resettlement of blacks in Africa by the 1820s?

Answer 1

-Based on the belief that African Americans were an inferior race that could not coexist with white society.

Question 2

Why did only 1,400 blacks emigrate to Africa between 1820-1830?

Answer 2

-Because most believed that America was truly their home

Question 3

What is the term that is the call to outlaw slavery?

Answer 3

Abolition

Question 4

William Lloyd Garrison was the most radical white abolitionist. What was the name of his newspaper and what was his uncompromising message in 1831?

Answer 4

The Liberator: Immediate emancipation- the freeing of slaves, with no payment to slaveholders.

Question 5

What were the names of the two anti-slavery societies?

Answer 5

• David Walker and Frederick Douglass

Question 6

What did David Walker write in 1829?

Answer 6

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

Question 7

What did Walker call on slaves to do?

Answer 7

_-advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to end slavery.

Question 8

How did Frederick Douglas learn to read and write?

Answer 8

-By the wife of one of his owners.

Question 9

Why was she ordered to stop teaching him to read?

Answer 9

-Because her husband said reading “would forever unfit him to be a slave”

Question 10

How did Frederick Douglas escape slavery?

Answer 10

-He borrowed the identity of a free black sailor and carrying officials papers, he reached New York.

Question 11

What did Douglas say that he stole from his master? Give the full quote.

Answer 11

• “I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them”

Question 12

Douglas broke with Garrison in 1847. What was the name of the newspaper that he started?

Answer 12

The North Star

Question 13

What was the number of slaves in the United States by 1830?

Answer 13

-roughly 2 million

Question 14

What was an overseer or slave driver?

Answer 14

-basically a person that told the slaves what to do by whipping them

Question 15

By 1850 how many slaves lived in
Rural Areas:
Urban Areas:

Answer 15

2.8 million

400,000

Question 16

Where did Nat Turner lead his slave rebellion?

Answer 16

-Southampton County, Virginia

Question 17

What caused Turner to lead the rebellion?

Answer 17

• he believed that he had been chosen to lead his people out of bondage.

Question 18

What happened during the rebellion?

Answer 18

• He had about 80 followers and they attacked four plantations and killed almost 60 white inhabitants.

Question 19

List six (6) slave codes.

Answer 19

lost the right to own guns
purchase alcohol
assemble in public
testify in court
could not own property
could not learn to read or write

Question 20

What is the meaning of the term antebellum?

Answer 20

-Belonging to the period before the Civil War

Question 21

What is a gag rule?

Answer 21

-a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue