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| What is the definition of an abolitionist? |
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| A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery. |
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| What religious group did men and women who led the antislavery movement come from? |
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| What was the American Colinization Society? |
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| A group of Virginians who attempted to free enslaved workers[slaves] gradually by buying them from slaveholders and sending them to a place of freedom. |
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| Where did the 12,000 to 20,000 African Americans get sent to after being freed by the American Colinization Society? |
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| They were sent to Liberia, Africa which gained its independence in 1847. |
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| How did the American Colonization Society fight slavery?(multiple answers) |
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1.) Buying the slaves from slaveowners to set them free 2.) Sent them to Liberia, Africa where the slaves could be free |
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| In the end, did the American Colonization Society halt the growth of slavery? why or why not? |
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1.)The American Colinization Society did not halt the growth of slavery because more and more enslaved people continuted to increase at a steady pace, and the society could get only a small amount. 2.) Also because African Americans though America was their home and did not want to migrate to Liberia. |
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| What happened at the Constitutional Convention in 1787? |
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| The choice of whether a state should choose to be free or not was passed. |
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| Who was William Lloyd Garrison? |
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1.)William Lloyd Garrison was a newspaper writer who founded the antislavery paper called The Liberator. 2.)He was also one of the first white abolitionists to call for the freeing of enslaved people. |
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| What 2 societies did William Lloyd Garrison start because of his newspaper The Liberator? |
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1.)New England Anti-Slavery Society 2.) American Anti- Slavery Society. |
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| Who were Sarah and Angelina Grimké? |
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| They were one of the first women to speak publically against slavery by publishing American Slavery As It Is which notified many about the slave situation.[AKA Grimké Sisters] |
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| True or False? Both African-American and white abolitionists helped eachother in support of the abolition of slavery. |
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| True, even though the African-Americans lived in poverty, they were proud of their freedom and wanted to help in whatever way they could. |
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| What was the country's first African-American newspaper called and who started it? |
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1.) Freedom's Journal 2.) Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm |
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| David Walker was a writer who encouraged African-Americans to rebel and overthrow their owners[slavery] by force. |
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| Who was Frederick Douglas? |
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| an abolitionist who escaped slavery and returned to the United States to fight slavery. |
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| What did Frederick Douglas believe the rights of African-Americans should be compared to the whites when they[African-Americans] become free? |
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| Frederick Douglas believed that when African-Americans were freed, they should have full quality with the whites in rights. |
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| True or false? Frederick Douglass's friends did not purchase his freedom from the slaveholder in Maryland from whom he had fled. |
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| False, Douglass's friends ended up paying freedom from his owner. |
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| Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist who escaped slavery and dedicated her life to the movements for abolition and for women's rights.***Quakers helped recover her son from slavery.*** |
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What was the fugitive slave act? |
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An act that required citizens of the North or the South to capture runaway slaves. If anyone aided in protecting those people, they would be imprisoned or fined. |
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| Why did the South pass the fugitive act? |
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| To force Notherners to recognize the rights of Southerners. |
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| What was the Underground Railroad? |
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| A network of free African Americans and whites who helped get slaves in the South back to freedom in the Northern states in secret codes. |
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| Who was Harriet Tubman and why was she important to the Underground Railroad? |
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1.) Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who escaped slavery, and wanted to go back to help free others like Frederick Douglass. 2.) Freeing 70 individuals, she was important to the Underground Railroad because she was the most successful conductor on it. |
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