1387199313 | cotton | the product that accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840 | 0 | |
1387199314 | mountain whites | the southern whites who lived in the valleys of the Appalachian range that stretched from western Virginia to northern Georgia and Alabama who were independent farmers that hated both the southern aristocrats and their slaves | 1 | |
1387199315 | Frederick Douglass | the black abolitionist and self-educated orator who increasingly looked to politics to solve the slavery problem | 2 | |
1387199316 | West Africa Squadron | the British Royal Navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 that intercepted hundreds of slave ships and freed thousands of Africans | 3 | |
1387199317 | black belt | the area of the Deep South that stretched from South Carolina and Georgia into the new southwest states where most slaves were concentrated by 1860 | 4 | |
1387199318 | Denmark Vesey | a free black who led a rebellion in Charleston, SC in 1822 which led him and more than thirty followers to be publicly strung from the gallows | 5 | |
1387199319 | Nat Turner's Rebellion | the uprising led by a visionary black preacher that slaughtered about sixty Virginians, mostly women and children | 6 | |
1387199320 | Amistad | the Spanish slave ship on which enslaved Africans rebelled and attempted to sail back to Africa, but were driven ashore on Long Island and finally secured their freedom with the help of former president John Quincy Adams | 7 | |
1387199321 | American Colonization Society | the group founded in 1817 with the purpose of focusing on transporting freed blacks back to Africa | 8 | |
1387199322 | Liberia | the republic established on the fever-stricken West African coast for former slaves, with its capital, Monrovia, named after President Monroe | 9 | |
1387199323 | Theodore Dwight Weld | the abolitionist, inspired by Charles Grandison Finney, who assembled a potent propaganda pamphlet American Slavery as It Is | 10 | |
1387199324 | Lyman Beecher | the abolitionist who ran Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio | 11 | |
1387199325 | William Lloyd Garrison | the abolitionist who published his militantly antislavery newspaper The Liberator and was of the most radical abolitionists | 12 | |
1387199326 | American Anti-Slavery Society | the abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery | 13 | |
1387199327 | Wendell Phillips | the Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet," and who would eat not cane sugar and wear no cotton cloth, since both were produced by southern slaves | 14 | |
1387199328 | David Walker | the author of Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, which advocated a bloody end to white supremacy | 15 | |
1387199329 | Sojourner Truth | a freed black woman who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights | 16 | |
1387199330 | Martin Delany | one of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of the mass recolonization of Africa who visited West Africa's Niger Valley seeking a suitable site for relocation | 17 | |
1387199331 | Gag Resolution | the House's requiring of all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate | 18 | |
1387199332 | Cotton Kingdom | the term for the ante-bellum South that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product | 19 | |
1387199333 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful 1852 novel that focused on slavery's cruel effects in separating black family members from one another | 20 | |
1387199334 | free soilers | the northern antislavery politicians, like Abraham Lincoln, who rejected radical immediate abolitionism, but fought to prohibit the expansion of slavery in the western territories | 21 | |
1387199335 | Mason-Dixon line | the line across the southern boundary of Pennsylvania that formed the boundary between free states and slave states in the east | 22 | |
1387199336 | Lane Rebels | the group of theology students, led by Weld, who were expelled from their seminary for abolitionist activity and later became leading preachers of the anti-slavery gospel | 23 | |
1387199337 | William Wilberforce | the British evangelical Christian reformer who in 1833 achieved the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies | 24 | |
1387199338 | Lewis Tappan | the wealthy New York abolitionist merchant whose hoe was ransacked by a proslavery mob in 1834 | 25 | |
1387199339 | Elijah Lovejoy | the Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr | 26 |
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