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| 2205341296 | Denmark Vesey | A free black from Charleston who led a rebellion which caused increasing anxieties in the south whose blame was outlet into protest of the tariffs. This slave rebellion showed that the time of slavery in America was coming to a crossroads where something must be done. They did not want it reach a level as it did in Haiti and along with increasing pressure from Britain, slavery was becoming redefined as immoral. Much of the South's frustrations were outlet into tariff protests. | 0 | |
| 2205342177 | Nat Turner | Black priest; led a revolt in Virginia in [1831], killed 60 people(mostly women and children). This scared southerners because it was the first real violent act carried out by slaves. As a result, the slave codes were made stricter | 1 | |
| 2205342178 | Theodore Dwight Weld | Prominent abolitionist in the 1830's. He was self-educated and very outspoken. Put together a group called the "Land Rebels." He and his group traveled across the Old Northwest preaching antislavery gospel. Also put together a propaganda pamphlet called American Slavery As It Is. | 2 | |
| 2205344782 | Sir Walter Scott | English novelist whose romantic medievalism encouraged the semi-feudal ideas of the southern planters aristocracy. He wrote "Ivanhoe" | 3 | |
| 2205345757 | Arthur and Lewis Tappan | In [1826], the brothers began to import silk from Asia, and they quickly earned a sizable fortune gave money to abolistionist causes and became very stong abolitionists. They teamed up with Theodore D. Weld to create the American Anti-Slavery Society. | 4 | |
| 2205347164 | William Lloyd Garrison | Published the first edition of "The Liberator," triggering a 30-year war of words and, in a sense, firing one of the first shots of the Civil War. | 5 | |
| 2205347181 | Wendell Phillips | Rallied around William Lloyd Garrison. A Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet" who refused to eat cane sugar or wear cotton cloth, since both were made by slaves | 6 | |
| 2205349119 | David Walker | He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed the only way to end slavery was for the slaves to physically revolt. | 7 | |
| 2205349120 | Sojourner Truth | She was a freed slave who lived in America during the late 1800's. Also known as Isabella. From her home in New York she waged a constant battle for the abolition of slavery. She was also a prominent figure in the fight for women's rights. | 8 | |
| 2205350670 | Frederick Douglass | A former slave who was an abolitionist, gifted with eloquent speech and self-educated. In 1838 he was "discovered" as a great abolitionist to give antislavery speeches. He swayed many people to see that slavery was wrong by publishing "Narrative of the Life of _____" which depicted slavery as being cruel. He also looked for ways politically to end slavery. | 9 | |
| 2205350671 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | Reverend from Alton, Illinois, who impugned the chastity of Catholic women, had his printing press destroyed four times and was killed by a mob in 1837; he became an abolitionist martyr. | 10 | |
| 2205352293 | Oligarchy | A government ruled by a few powerful people | 11 | |
| 2205352294 | Mountain whites | Independent small farmers in the Appalacian Mountain Range, hated plantation owners and blacks, and viewed the impending Civil War as a "rich man's war, but a poor man's fight" | 12 | |
| 2205354080 | "political" abolitionists | People who hoped to end slavery by using the constitution and the powers granted to congress, and electing people that would help do so | 13 | |
| 2205354081 | "positive good" | In the South, George Fizhugh established the philosophy that slavery was _______ It was believed that slavery benefited slaves by providing them with food, shelter, and often Christian religion. Also, Fitzhugh argued that free laborers in northern factories were not treated any better than slaves. | 14 | |
| 2205355517 | "free soilers" | Northern antislavery politicians, like Abraham Lincoln, who rejected radical abolitionism but sought to prohibit the expansion of slavery in the western territories | 15 | |
| 2205358080 | Cotton Kingdom | Areas in the south where cotton farming developed because of the high demand for cotton, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas (partly Florida) | 16 | |
| 2205358081 | Mulattoes | People of African and European descent | 17 | |
| 2205359331 | American Colonization Society | A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country. | 18 | |
| 2205360264 | Lane Rebels | In [1832] Theodore Dwight Weld went to the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Seminary was presided over by Lyman Beecher. Weld and some of his comrades were kicked out for their actions of anti-slavery. The young men were known as the _______ They helped lead and continue the preaching of anti-slavery ideas. | 19 | |
| 2205362151 | West Africa Squadron | British royal navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. It intercepted hundreds of slave ships and freed thousands of Africans. | 20 | |
| 2205405151 | Amistad | [1839] Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard; the ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial; former president John Quincy Adams argued their case before the Supreme Court, securing their eventual release | 21 | |
| 2205411129 | The Liberator | An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those who opposed. | 22 | |
| 2205412225 | American Anti-Slavery Society | Founded in [1833] by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists. Garrison burned the Constitution as a proslavery document. Argued for "no Union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves. | 23 | |
| 2205413680 | Gag Resolutions | [1836] ordered by the House, required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate; angered John Quincy Adams | 24 | |
| 2205413681 | Black Belt | Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves. Emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west. | 25 | |
| 2205415481 | Mason-Dixon Line | Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies | 26 |
