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Unit 5.3 APUSH
Term | Definition |
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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. |