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reconstruction, slavery
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | people who didn't believe in slavery Fredrick Douglass, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown |
| Nonviolence | no violence William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglas believed in stopping slavery without using any violence |
| Slave pen | a place where they kept slaves when they were about to sell them in the market |
| Religion | The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power. God is the main person American people worship |
| Emancipation | free someone from the rule of someone else emancipation proclamation was a document that freed the slaves in the south |
| Petition | a written request |
| Gag rule | a regulation that doesn't allow you to talk about important matter in public, example slavery |
| Bleeding Kansas | a series of violent events, involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that happened in Kansas |
| Free states Vs. Slave states | a free state didn't allow slavery. A slave state allows slavery they tried to keep them balanced so the south wouldn't get mad |
| Personal Liberty Act | |
| Fugitive Slave Act | any slave that ran away would have to be brought back to their owner |
| Dred Scott decisions | Once a slave always a slave African American are not citizens |
| Angelina Grimke | a white abolitionist she didn't like slavery because they were mean to slaves she didn't like it because she thought it was a sin and that the white masters would go to jail. |
| Frederick Douglass | A formal slave that ran away from its owner believed in stopping slavery without using any violence |
| William Lloyd Garrison | A white abolitionist that didn't believe in using violence to prove his point. Him and Fredrick went around the states spreading their ideas |
| The Liberator | a newspaper that bashed on slavery ran by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Dred Scott | Dred Scott first African American went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847 |
| John Brown | White abolitionist that believed in using violence to stop slavery. believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution. Killed pro-slavery people |
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