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| 100650684 | oligarchy | this is a government in which the minority leads the whole, and in the South, this group was composed of the planter aristocracy. only one thousand seven hundred and thirty-three slaves owned more than one hundred slaves by the year 1855, and these families made the political and social decisions for the South, which in turn affected the nation. the people leading this newly formed government were the leaders of wealth and finesse, and could send their children to the greatest schools, but these people also felt the strongest obligation to serve their public. this widened the gap between the rich and the poor. | |
| 100650685 | Denmark Vesey | he led a slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, that failed. he was betrayed by his informers, and he along with thirty of his followers were publicly hung in the gallows. | |
| 100650686 | Nat Turner | a black visionary preacher who led a rebellion in Virginia, in which sixty whites, mostly women and children were slaughtered in 1831. the retaliation against the situation was swift and bloody, and the rebellion was quickly ended. | |
| 100650687 | American Colonization Society | a society formed in 1817; this was one of the first abolitionist societies formed to transport the African-American slaves back to Africa to be freed. | |
| 100650688 | Republic of Liberia | this organization was formed in 1822, and was focused on the region of Liberia, which was on the West African Coast, and was established for former slaves. the capital of the country was named after President Monroe, Monrovia. 15,000 black slaves were transported back to Liberia over a forty year period. | |
| 100650689 | Theodore Dwight Weld | a man who was converted by the preachings of Charles Grandison Finney in the 1820s in New York, he was uneducated, but his speeches were extremely powerful and direct to his rural audiences. Arthur and Lewis Tappan were two brother New York merchants who materially aided this man. the two paid his way into Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1832. he was expelled along with other students in 1834 by Lyman Beecher (father of Harriet Beecher Stowe- novelist, Catherine Beecher-reformer, and Henry Ward Beecher-preacher/abolitionist) because he organized an 18-day debate on slavery. he and his rebel followers fanned out across the Northwest, and he made the "American Slavery as It Is," (1839) and he influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin." | |
| 100650690 | William Lloyd Garrison | a man of twenty-six, he was an abolitionist who had a huge blast in the year of 1831. his father was a drunk and he was the proclaimed child of the Second Great Awakening, he formed the anti-slavery newspaper in Boston called the "Liberator." he proclaimed that under NO circumstances would he ever support slavery, and in 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded after him. he seemed to focus more on self-righteousness than on the evil of slavery; he never explained how freeing slaves would end to the evil of slavery. he burned the Constitution in 1854 because he believed that it was "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell." | |
| 100650691 | The liberator | this was the newspaper that was founded by William Lloyd Garrison, and this triggered a thirty-year verbal war against slavery and slave owners. | |
| 100650692 | American Anti-Slavery Society | this society was formed in 1833, and was created by abolitionists in commemoration of Garrison's works. Wendell Phillips was the most well-known of the society, and he claimed that he would neither eat can sugar, nor wear cotton cloth because the two were made impart by slavery. | |
| 100650693 | David Walker | the author of the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" (1829), which was a book that insisted a violent and bloody end to the worldly white supremacy. | |
| 100650694 | Sojourner Truth | this was a freed African-American lady from New York, who fought for the emancipation of African-American slaves, and she also fought for the rights of women. | |
| 100650695 | Martin Delaney | he was one of the few black leaders to take seriously the movement of the recolonization of Africa. in 1859, he visited the Niger Valley in West Africa to find a spot that would be best for relocation. | |
| 100650696 | Frederick Douglass | he escaped from slavery in 1838, and in 1841, when he was twenty-one he was discovered by the abolitionists while giving an anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts; he publicly spoke although his life was threatened and he was often beaten. he published "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," (1845) which was an autobiography. his father was white and his mother was black, he eventually learned to read and write, and thereafter escaped to the North. he believed that politics would end slavery, and along with other abolitionists, he joined the Liberty Party (1840), the Free Soil Party (1848), and the Republican Party (1850s). along with fellow abolitionists, he believed that war was the only solution to the predicament. | |
| 100650697 | Gag-Resolution | anti-slavery reformers forced this through Congress in 1836, and this resolution demanded that the anti-slavery appeals should be tabled with no debate. Representative John Quincy Adams was triggered by this petition, and an eighty-year fight for its repeal was triggered by him. | |
| 100650698 | Free-soilers | people, including Abraham Lincoln who did not outright disapprove of the institution of slavery, but did not wish for this to spread to the West. |
