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| 692731371 | "Peculiar Institution" | Southern Euphemism for Slavery | 0 | |
| 692731372 | Frederick Douglass | Self-Educated Slave; Escaped in 1838; Gave impromptu speech at an antislavery meeting in Massachusetts in 1841. Became best-known Abolitionist Speaker; threatened and beat up. Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass | 1 | |
| 692731373 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852; it persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery | 2 | |
| 692731374 | Denmark Vesey | Freed Slave; Led a rebellion in Charleston, SC in 1822; Captured and publicly Hanged; Slave Codes Strengthened | 3 | |
| 692731375 | Nat Turner | Semiliterate black preacher; in 1831 led an uprising that killed about 60 Virginians, mostly women and children | 4 | |
| 692731376 | Theodore Dwight Weld | Self-Educated White Abolitionist; Evangelized by C.G. Finney in the Burned-Over District. Spoke to rural audiences of farmers. Went to the Lane Theological Seminary in 1832 with help of the Tappan brothers but expelled along with the other "Lane Rebels" in 1834 for organizing a slavery debate. Put together a propaganda pamphlet called "American Slavery As It Is" | 5 | |
| 692731377 | Arthur and Lewis Tappan | Wealthy and devout NY merchant brothers born in MA who united with Theodore D. Weld to form the American Anti-Slavery Society; gave financial support to anti-slavery societies & to Oberlin College in Ohio | 6 | |
| 692731378 | "Lane Rebels" | Group of theology students, led by Theodore Dwight Weld, who were expelled from Lane Theological Seminary for abolitionist activity and later became leading preachers of the antislavery gospel throughout the Old Northwest | 7 | |
| 692731379 | William Lloyd Garrison | Spiritual and emotionally high strung child of a drunken father; January 1st, 1831, he published the first edition of "The Liberator" in Boston triggering a 30-year war of words and in a sense firing one of the first shots of the Civil War. "I WILL BE HEARD!" "poisonous weed of slavery" | 8 | |
| 692731380 | The Liberator | Anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison; drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed | 9 | |
| 692731381 | American Anti-Slavery Society | Organization started in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison whose members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans. Included Wendell Phillips. | 10 | |
| 692731382 | David Walker | Black Abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves; wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" in 1829; it called for a bloody end to white supremacy; believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt | 11 | |
| 692731383 | Sojourner Truth | Abolitionist, feminist, and freed slave in NY and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women | 12 | |
| 692731384 | Liberty Party | Political Party that started in the 1840's; Main platform was bringing an end to slavery by political and legal means; | 13 | |
| 692731385 | "Positive Good" | Southern slave supporters campaigned that slavery was this and supported by the Bible because masters taught their slaves religion, made them civilized, treated them well, and gave them "happy" lives. | 14 | |
| 692731386 | The Gag Resolution | Meant that Congress refused to hear petitions related to slavery and the slave trade, and all such petitions were tabled for about a decade; Americans revolted against this, claiming they had the right to petition Congress and that the law attacked their fundamental constitutional rights | 15 | |
| 692731387 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | Reverend in IL. Not content to assail slavery, impugned the chastity of Catholic women. His printing press was destroyed four times and he was killed by a mob in 1837. "Martyr Abolitionist" | 16 | |
| 692731388 | John Quincy Adams | Waged a successful eight-year fight for the repeal of the Gag Resolution as an ex-president. | 17 | |
| 692731389 | Oligarchy | Government by the few. The South was one in some respects before the Civil War. | 18 | |
| 692731390 | Abolitionism | Movement to end slavery and world slave trade | 19 | |
| 692731391 | Cotton Kingdom | Explosion of cotton cultivation in the South after the introduction of the cotton gin. Created an intense demand for slave labor. | 20 |
