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| 690650550 | 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 that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt. | |
| 690650551 | Nat Turner | Black priest; led a revolt in Virginia 1831, killed 60 people(mostly women and children). This scared the Southerners because it was the first really violent action of the slaves. As a result slave codes were made stricter. | |
| 690650552 | Sojourner Truth | was a freed slave who lived in America during the late 1800's. She was 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. | |
| 690650553 | Theodore Dwight Weld | was a prominent abolitionist in the 1830's. He was self-educated and very outspoken. He put together a group called the "Lane Rebels." He and his group traveled across the Old Northwest preaching antislavery gospel. This person also put together a propaganda pamphlet called American Slavery As It Is. | |
| 690650554 | Frederick Douglas | 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 (himself)" which depicted slavery as being cruel. He also looked for ways politically to end slavery. | |
| 690650555 | Lane Rebels | n 1832 Theodore Dwight Weld went to the ___ 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 this. They helped lead and continue the preaching of anti-slavery ideas. | |
| 690900079 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852. The book persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery. | |
| 690997480 | William Llyod Garrison | 1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Stern and uncompromising her favored Northern sucession from the South. | |
| 690997481 | Denmark Vessey | A free Black man led an ill-fated rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. He was betrayed by informers. He and 30 of his followers were hung from the gallows in public. | |
| 691078498 | Arthur and Lewis Tappan | two brothers, weathy merchants from New York and devout abolitionists. In 1832, they payed the way for Theodore Weld to attend Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. | |
| 691078499 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | This reverend from Alton, Illonois was against slavery and attacked the chastity of Catholic Women. He had his printing press destroyed 4 timesand in 1837 he was killed by an angry mob. He became " the martyr abolitionist." | |
| 691078500 | John Quincy Adams | he waged a successful 8 year fight to repeal the "Gag Resolution." | |
| 691078501 | Gag resolution | required that all antislavery appeals - the piles of petitions were pouring into Congress - that they should be tabled without debate. This was put forth by sensitive southerners in the House. | |
| 691078502 | Oligarchy | A government ruled by a few powerful people | |
| 691078503 | abolitionism | the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery, a movement to end slavery. | |
| 691078504 | "Positive Good" | Proslavery whites launch a massive defence of slavery in protest to the abolitionists. Slavery, they claim, was supported by the Bible and Aristotle. That is was good for Africans who were lifted out of the barbarism of the jungle. It was believed that slavery benefited slaves by providing them with food, shelter, and often Christian religion that master-slave relationships resembled that of a family. That slaves were happy and treated better than that of the overworked Northern factory workers. | |
| 691078505 | Cotton Kingdom | Term for the South that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product. The cotton-producing region of the southern United States up until the Civil War | |
| 691078506 | Peculiar Institution | SLAVERY. Widely used term for the institution of American slavery in the South. | |
| 691078507 | "The Liberator" | a militantly anti-slavery newspaper written by William Llyod Garrison. | |
| 691078508 | American Anti-Slavery Society | an organization started by William Lloyd garrison whose members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans. | |
| 691078509 | Liberty Party | a former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery. Later merged with antislavery Whigs to form the Free Soil Party, supported abolition, broke off of Anti-Slavery Society |
