American Pageant Chapter 16 Key Terms/People to Know Flashcards
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3636160170 | American Anti-Slavery Society (1833-1870) | Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery. By 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters | 0 | |
3636160171 | American Colonization Society | Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves | 1 | |
3636160172 | Amistad (1839) | Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard; the ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial; former president John Quincy Adams argued their case before the Supreme Court, securing their eventual release | 2 | |
3636160173 | Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (1829) | Incendiary abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, a Southern-born free black | 3 | |
3636160174 | Black Belt | Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of Slaves. It emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west | 4 | |
3636160175 | Breakers | Slave drivers who employed the lash to brutally "break" the souls of strong-willed slaves | 5 | |
3636160176 | Gag Resolution | Prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals. Driven through the House by pro-slavery Southerners, it was passed every year for eight years, eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams. | 6 | |
3636160177 | The Liberator (1831-1865) | Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves | 7 | |
3636160178 | Liberia | West-African nation founded in 1822 as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s | 8 | |
3636160179 | Mason-Dixon Line | Originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery | 9 | |
3636160180 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) | Vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass | 10 | |
3636160181 | Nat Turner's Rebellion (1851) | Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among white Southerners of further uprisings | 11 | |
3636160182 | Responsorial | Call and response style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions. Practiced by African slaves in the South | 12 | |
3636160183 | West Africa Squadron (established 1808) | British royal navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. It intercepted hundreds of slave ships and freed thousands of Africans | 13 | |
3636160184 | Frederick Douglass (late 1830s-1840s) | born a slave but escaped to the North and became a prominent black abolitionist; gifted orator, writer, and editor; published "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" | 14 | |
3636160185 | Martin Delany (1859) | one of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of mass recolonization of Africa; visited West Africa's Niger Valley seeking a suitable site for relocation | 15 | |
3636160186 | Nat Turner (1831) | visionary black preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia, killing sixty Virginians | 16 | |
3636160187 | Sojourner Truth (1840s) | freed black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights | 17 | |
3636160188 | Theodore Dwight Weld (1830s) | abolitionist who appealed with a special power and directness to his rural audiences of untutored farmers; preached antislavery gospel, assembled a propaganda pamphlet, "American Slavery as It Is" in (1839) | 18 | |
3636160189 | William Lloyd Garrison (1831-1850s) | most conspicious and most vilified of the abolitionists, published "The Liberator" in Boston, helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society; favored Northern secession and renounced politics | 19 | |
3636160190 | William Wilberforce (1833) | member of Parliament and an evangelical Christian reformer who unchained the slaves in the West Indies | 20 |