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Unit 5.3 APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| American Colonization Society-Liberia | Plan to return slaves back to Africa |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery |
| Emancipation | various efforts to political rights and equality |
| Manumission | Slaveowner freeing his or her slave |
| The Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison; Voice of abolitionism |
| The North Star | Frederick Douglass; Speaker that inspired many through personal accounts |
| Aint I a woman | Sojourner Truth- wrote A very inspiring speech about anti slavery |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe- Helped lay groundwork for civil war |
| Harriet Tubman | African American spy who worked with the union |
| Underground railroad | A network of secret routes and safehouses used by slaves. |
| compromise of 1850 | 5 bills passed; diffused the north and the south. |
| free soil party | opposing expansion of slavery into the west. |