Vocabulary for Chapters 16 & 17 of The American Pageant, 13th Edition.
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| 119191576 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | A nineteenth-century American author best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin, a powerful novel that inflamed sentiment against slavery. | 0 | |
| 119191577 | Nat Turner | A black slave of the early nineteenth century, who led the only effective and sustained slave revolt in American history. He and his supporters killed several dozen white people in Virginia before he was captured; he was hanged in 1831. Although Turner's rebellion led to a severe reaction among the slaveholders, it demonstrated that not all slaves were willing to accept their condition passively. | 1 | |
| 119191578 | Sojourner Truth | An abolitionist and escaped slave of the nineteenth century. She was famous as a speaker against slavery. | 2 | |
| 119191579 | Frederick Douglas | United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895) | 3 | |
| 119191580 | abolitionism | the emancipation of the slaves, accomplished by the Emancipation Proclamation issued in 1863 and ratified in 1865 | 4 | |
| 119191581 | The Liberator | Abolitionists newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in Boston | 5 | |
| 119305851 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree. | 6 | |
| 119305852 | American Anti-Slavery Society | (1833-1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. Frederick Douglass was a key leader of the society and often spoke at its meetings. William Wells Brown was another freed slave who often spoke at meetings. Its headquarters was in New York City. From 1840 to 1870 it published a weekly newspaper, the National Anti-Slavery Standard. | 7 | |
| 119305853 | William Lloyd Garrison | A prominent abolitionist of the nineteenth century. In his newspaper, The Liberator , he called for immediate freedom for the slaves and for the end of all political ties between the northern and southern states. | 8 | |
| 119305854 | Denmark Vesey | United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822) | 9 | |
| 119305855 | David Walker | was an outspoken African American activist who demanded the immediate end of slavery in the new nation. A leader within the Black enclave in Boston, Massachusetts, he published in 1829 his Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World: a call to "awaken my brethren" to the power within Black unity and struggle. | 10 | |
| 119305856 | Theodore Dwight Weld | Abolitionist who played a role as writer, editor, speaker, and organizer. He is best known for his co-authorship of the authoritative compendium, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, published in 1839. Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based Uncle Tom's Cabin on Weld's text and it is regarded as second only to that work in its influence on the antislavery movement. | 11 | |
| 119305857 | Arthur and Lewis Tappan | New York abolitionists who gained legal help and acquittal for the Africans and managed to increase public support and fund-raising for the organized return trip home to Africa for surviving members of the group. | 12 | |
| 119305858 | John Tyler | elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862) | 13 | |
| 119305859 | John Slidell | (1793 - July 9, 1871) American politician, lawyer and businessman. Originally a native of New York, he moved to Louisiana as a young man and became a staunch defender of southern rights as a U.S. Representative and Senator. | 14 | |
| 119305860 | Winfield Scott | 1795?-1858, a black slave whose suit for freedom (1857) was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court (Dred Scott Decision) on the grounds that a slave was not a citizen and therefore could not sue in a federal court. | 15 | |
| 119305861 | Zachary Taylor | 1784-1850, 12th president of the U.S. 1849-50: major general during the Mexican War and commander of the army of the Rio Grande 1846. | 16 | |
| 119305862 | Nicholas P. Trist | Private secretary to Andrew Jackson who was appointed U.S. consul in Havana, Cuba, but who was later removed from his post after the Amistad affair. | 17 | |
| 119305863 | James K. Polk | 1795-1849, the 11th president of the U.S. president during the Mexican- American war. 1845-49 | 18 | |
| 119305864 | David Wilmot | (January 20, 1814 - March 16, 1868) was a U.S. political figure. He was a sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso which aimed to ban slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. A Democrat, a Free Soiler, and a Republican during his political career, his opposition to slavery did not include the abolitionist position of ending slavery in the entire country, and his views on race, by today's standards, could be classified as racist. | 19 | |
| 119305865 | John C. Fremont | United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890) | 20 | |
| 119305866 | Santa Anna | Mexican general who tried to crush the Texas revolt and who lost battles to Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War (1795-1876) | 21 | |
| 119305867 | Webster-Ashburton Treaty | An agreement between the U.S. and England (1842) defining the boundary between British and American territory from Maine to present-day Minnesota. | 22 | |
| 119305868 | Bear Flag Revolt | a revolt against Mexico proclaimed by California settlers on June 14, 1846, in Sonoma in the then-Mexican province of California. Declared during the Mexican-American War, the "republic" was a popular revolt; the participants never formed a government, and the republic was never recognized by any nation. The revolt lasted 26 days, at the end of which the U.S. Army took control of the area. It is most notable for creating the "Bear Flag", with insignia that appear on the modern state flag. | 23 | |
| 119305869 | Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | The peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War. | 24 | |
| 119305870 | Whigs | American political party that grew out of opposition for the Jackson administration and the Democratic party. It supported a high tariff, economic expansion, and opposing the strength of the presidency when compared to the legislative branch. | 25 | |
| 119305871 | Cotton Kingdom | Areas dominated both economically and socially by the cotton industry. | 26 | |
| 119305872 | Liberty Party | a former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848 | 27 | |
| 119305873 | American Colonization Society | Founded in 1816, it was the primary vehicle to support the "return" of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa. It helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821-22 as a place for freedmen. Its founders were Henry Clay, John Randolph, and Richard Bland Lee.[1][2] | 28 | |
| 119305874 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | An American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois for his abolitionist views. | 29 |
