Unit 5 Quest

Question 1

USA expands dramatically

Answer 1

1800-> so settlement passed mississippi river
1850-> 4x total expansion (from sea to shining sea)
Advancements in transportation

Question 2

who believed that slavery was the worst sin

Answer 2

evangelicals

Question 3

interest in _____________ emancipation and ______________ emancipation

Answer 3

gradual

conditional

Question 4

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 4

He and other congregational revivalists and quakers helped push the idea of immediate emancipation

Question 5

what is moral suasion

Answer 5

Moral suasion is an appeal to morality, in order to influence or change behavior. A famous example is the attempt by William Lloyd Garrison and his American Anti-Slavery Society to end slavery in the United States by arguing that the practice was morally wrong.

Question 6

Black northerners helped convince people that conditional emancipation

Answer 6

that it is racist and african americans deserved the fruits of their labor toward american liberty

Question 7

What is the liberator

Answer 7

The Liberator (1831-1865) was the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper during the antebellum period and throughout the Civil War. It was published and edited in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison, a leading white abolitionist and founder of the influential American Anti-Slavery Society.

Question 8

abolitionist efforts

Answer 8

societies, schools, churches, pamphlets, newspapers, public speeches, shame exposes, petitioning congress

Question 9

anti abolitionists efforts

Answer 9

whigs and democrats passed law prohibiting discussion of abolitionist petitions

mob attacked anti slavery convention of women

constitution was fundamentally pro slavery