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Amer. History Ch14
Sections one-four; pgs 402-419; *th Gradeee! :)
Question | Answer |
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The Great Awakening | a powerful religious movement against slavery. |
Charles Grandison Finney | a minister and a leader of the Second Great Awakening. |
Henry Highland Garnet | he spoke against slavery who was Negro and was an escaped slave. |
Political | a spirit of democracy against slavery; Thomas Jefferson said "all men are created equal", but excluded Negros. |
Religious | A spirit of revival; Quakers had spoken out since colonial times, and said "all men and women were equal in the eyes of God"; The Second Great Awakening. |
Thomas Jefferson | he said the nation needed more educated people. |
1804 | all states from Pennsylvania and North promised to free slaves. |
50,000 | number of slaves in the North. |
1,000,000 | number of slaves in the South. |
1817 | American Colonization Society founded, proposing to end slavery by setting up a colony in Africa. |
1822 | President Monroe helped establish the nation of Liberia. |
Paul Cuffe | he thought Negros didn't have equal rights and should go to Liberia, so he spent $4,000 of his own money to send 38 Blacks to Liberia. |
A few thousand | number that went back to Liberia. |
Abolitionist | A person who was against slavery in the United States. |
Freedom's Journal | an anti-slavery newspaper; James Forten and other wealthy African Americans gave to the paper and other anti-slavery efforts. |
David Walker | he was one of the most outspoken abolitionists that wrote "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World". |
Frederick Douglas | he defied slave codes and taught himself to read and write. he would pick up pick through discarded newspapers and read those. then he wrote n anti-slavery paper called "North Star". |
William Lloyd Garrison | he was a white abolitionst that made the anti-slavery newspaper called the "Liberator" and said that slavery was evil. |
Grimke Sisters | they were wealthy slaveholders; lectures about evil slavery; started to crusade for womens rights. |
Stations | houses/churches/caves/wagons/hay piles were abolitionists and runaway slaves could sleep. |
$40,000 | Harriett Tubman's reward for bringing 300 slaves to freedom after 19 trips. |
19 | number of trips Harriett Tubman took to get 300 runaway slaves to freedom. |