Chapter 15.2

What did antislavery societies generally believe about ending slavery What did antislavery societies generally believe about ending slavery? What steps did they want to take? They wanted to end slavery gradually so that the South’s economy would have time to adjust First step: was to end the slave trade Second step: phase out slavery

Who was Benjamin Lundy? Quaker Founded a newspaper in Ohio His message was to spread abolitionist ideas

What is the American Colonization Society. What did they want What is the American Colonization Society? What did they want? How did they help African Americans? A group of powerful white people They wanted to send free African Americans to Africa to start new lives Liberia “place of freedom” Did not stop the growth of slavery Only sent about 10,000 to Africa because most wanted to remain free in America

What are the two main goals of the antislavery groups until the 1830s? Gradualism and Colonization

Who is William Lloyd Garrison Who is William Lloyd Garrison? What did he write and what group did he start? A white abolitionist Started the newspaper called the Liberator Started the New England Antislavery Society

Who are the Grimke sisters and what did they do with their inheritance? Wealthy sisters who grew up in South Carolina in a slave holding family Asked for their inheritance early and were given slaves, they freed those slaves

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write and was it popular? Uncle Tom’s Cabin About how cruel and brutal slavery was It was very popular, and banned in the South

What was the risk of Frederick Douglass joining the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society? Being captured and returning to slavery

What did Frederick Douglass edit? Antislavery newspaper: North Star

How did Frederick Douglass become free? (Two parts to this answer) He ran away 1847 his friends helped buy his freedom

Who is Isabella Baumfree? She was born a slave Escaped to the North Sojourner Truth

Who were the passengers of the Underground Railroad? Escaping slaves from the south

What were the stations of the Underground Railroad? Barns, basements, and attics on the way to the North

Were whites and African Americans Harriet Tubman Who were the conductors of the Underground Railroad? The most famous one? Were whites and African Americans Harriet Tubman

What happened to William Lloyd Garrison and Elijah Lovejoy? WLG- a riot, jailed for his protection EL- mobs attacked his newspaper, shot and killed

White Southerners claimed slavery was necessary to the Southern economy and it allows Southern whites to reach a high level of culture…What does this mean? White southerners believed that there should be social classes: workers and a higher class to create society/culture

What was the white Southerners argument about slaves vs What was the white Southerners argument about slaves vs. Northern workers? Slaves were treated well, fed and taken care of, medical needs provided Workers were worse off than slaves, they had to pay for their own things and nothing was provided for them

Women’s rights movement As the tensions grew between pro-slavery and antislavery groups, which movement also became to grow? Women’s rights movement