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SS877
Slavery and Abolitionists
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a plantation? | Large farm |
| Why did Southern plantations in the Antebellum period need slave labor? | Needed an inexpensive supply of workers to help them raise cash crops |
| What amendment to the Constitution ended slavery? | 13th |
| Who helped to organize the first antislavery society in America? | Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush |
| What political parties in the Antebellum Period had antislavery as part of their party platform? | Free Soil Party, Republican Party, and the Liberty Party |
| Were all Northerners against slavery? | No |
| How did many Northern factory owners and workers benefit from slavery in the South? | Southern cotton was used in Northern textile manufacturing |
| Who was Theodore Weld? | Abolitionist who organized several abolitionist societies during the 1800s |
| What African country did the American Colonization Society establish to provide a homeland for freed slaves from the United States? | Liberia |
| What was the Fugitive Slave Law? | Required Northern states to capture runaway slaves and send them back south to their owners |
| How did Southern states react to slave rebellions? | Their legislatures passed strict Black Codes which restricted the movement of slaves. |
| Give some examples of Black Codes. | Slaves could not meet in groups, slaves must have identification papers if off their plantation, could not teach slaves to read and write |
| Who was a runaway slave who wrote and spoke about the evils of slavery? | Frederick Douglass |
| What was the name of Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper? | The North Star |
| What was the name of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper? | The Liberator |
| What religious group was the first to actively oppose slavery in the United States? | Quakers |
| Who was a runaway slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| What was Harriet Tubman's nickname? | Moses |
| Who was the leader of the South's worst slave rebellion? | Nat Turner |
| Who were people who demanded an immediate end to slavery? | abolitionists |
| Who was Elijah Lovejoy? | abolitionist from Illinois who was shot to death while defending his printing press |
| What president issued the Emancipation Proclamation? | Abraham Lincoln |
| What was the Emancipaion Proclamation? | Said all slaves were free in the states rebelling against the United States in 1863. It was issued by Pres. Abraham Lincoln |
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