The Start of the Abolition Movement
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Tobacco Industry Regulation In the 1900s smoking cigarettes was seen as a normal activity
Tobacco Industry Regulation Doctors recommended brands in advertisements
Tobacco Industry Regulation Television actors smoked on television, movies, and advertisements
Tobacco Industry Regulation Cigarette advertisements were on television commercials
Tobacco Industry Regulation Women and children were advertised to
Tobacco Industry Regulation Even Santa got into cigarette advertising!
1964 The Surgeon General report linked cigarette smoking to cancer
1965 Cigarette packs require a warning label
1971 Cigarette advertising is banned on television
1992 The Supreme Court rules that the warning labels on cigarette packs do not shield companies from lawsuits
1995 California bans smoking in all enclosed public places, including all bars and restaurants. As of January 2014, 28 states have enacted this ban
1996 Target Company stops selling cigarettes
1997 Joe Camel is banned after inside documents prove tobacco companies were intentionally advertising to children
1999 Tobacco advertisements are banned on billboards
2010 A ban on the use of the deceptive terms "light," "mild" and "low" tar in the marketing and sale of cigarettes.
2014 CVS Pharmacy stops selling cigarettes
2014?? As of last year, the 5 largest tobacco manufactures in the world made over 321 billion dollars. (That is $321,000,000,000) Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States 41,000 deaths result from secondhand smoke exposure One in five deaths are smoking related 1,300 smokers die every day On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers
Question 1 What were the two things early anti-slavery societies looked to do to end slavery gradually? Why did they want to end it slowly?
Answer First they wanted to stop the slave trade.
Slave Trade
Answer Then they would phase out slavery itself. Supporters believed that ending slavery gradually could give the South’s economy time to adjust to the loss of enslaved labor.
Question 2 Explain the American Colonization Society. Who were they? What did they do? Where did they send people?
Answer The American Colonization Society planned to send free African Americans to Africa to start new lives. The society raised money to send free African Americans out of the country. Some went to the west coast of Africa, where the society acquired land for a colony called Liberia.
Question 3 What were 2 reasons the American Colonization Society not stop the growth of slavery?
Answer The American colonization society did not stop the growth of slavery because it helped resettled only about 10,000 African Americans by the mid-1860s. Only a few African Americans wanted to go to Africa, which most wanted to be free in America.
Question 4 What are 3 things William Lloyd Garrison did for the antislavery movement?
Answer He started a newspaper called The Liberator
Answer He was one of the first white abolitionists to call for an immediate end to slavery, and rejected a slow, gradual approach.
Answer He attracted enough followers to start the New England Anti- Slavery Society in 1832 and the American Anti-Slavery Society the next year.
Question 5 What 2 things did the Grimké sisters do for the antislavery movement?
Answer While living in Philadelphia, the Grimké sisters spoke out for both abolition and women’s rights.
Answer The sisters also asked their mother to give them their family inheritance early. Instead of money or land, the sisters wanted several of the family’s enslaved workers, so that they could free them immediately.
Question 6 List 3 things African American abolitionists did to try to stop slavery.
Answer African Americans helped organize and lead the American Anti-Slavery Society
Answer They subscribed to The Liberator
Answer Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm started the country’s first African American newspaper Freedom’s Journal.
Answer David Walker published a powerful pamphlet against slavery, and challenged African Americans to rebel and overthrow slavery.
Answer In 1830 free African American leaders held a convention in Philadelphia “to devise ways and means for bettering our condition.” They discussed starting an African American college and encouraging free African Americans to move to Canada.
Question 7 List 3 things Frederick Douglas did to try to stop slavery
Answer He joined the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
Answer He traveled widely to speak at abolitionist meetings, and even appeared in London and the West Indies
Answer He was a powerful speaker who often moved listeners to tears
Answer He also edited the antislavery newspaper North Star
Question 8 Why did Frederick Douglas choose to remain in the United States? What did he insist on?
Answer Douglas chose to remain in the United States because he believed abolitionists must fight slavery at its source. He insisted that African Americans receive not just freedom but full equality with whites as well.
Question 9 Why is Sojourner Truth important to the abolitionist movement?
Answer Sojourner Truth worked with William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and others to bring about the end of slavery. She traveled throughout the North and spoke about her experiences in slavery.
Question 10 List 3 reasons Southerners defended slavery
Answer They claimed that slavery was necessary to the Southern economy and had allowed Southern white to reach a high level of culture
Answer They argued that they treated enslaved people well, and Northern workers were worse off than enslaved workers because they worked in factories for long hours at low wages.
Answer Also Northern workers had to pay for their own goods and services from their small earning, while enslaved African Americans received food, clothing, and medical care.
Answer Other defenses of slavery were based on racism. Many whites believed that African Americans were better off under white care than on their own.