1. 5/17 Today’s Agenda
DO NOW: take handouts and have hw out to be checked
Homework: #36 due Friday
Vocab/Test May 24th
Aim: How did the abolitionists make a difference to humanity?
Abolitionist chart
The Underground RR Escape! Interactive

2. Harriet Tubman Escaped from slavery Conductor of Underground Railroad
Returned to the south 19 times to help other runaways escape slavery
Led over 300 slaves to freedom, including her parents
* 40,000 reward for capture

3. Friends About William Lloyd Garrison LIKE
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prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.
editor of the 1831 abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
He promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe Like author, wrote and published the novel
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
The novel showed evils of slavery
saw fugitive slave law as an injustice

5. Best known African American abolitionist
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Frederick Douglass
   
Best known African American abolitionist
Went against slave codes and learned to read
escaped from slavery
Traveled giving lectures about horrors of slavery
Published an antislavery paper, the “North Star”

6. John Brown (abolitionist)
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John Brown (abolitionist)
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An American abolitionist 
who believed violence could be used to overthrow institution of slavery
Believed God wanted him to punish supporters of slavery
Moved to Kansas to help make it a free state
Inspired “Bleeding Kansas”
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7. INTERACTIVE
The Underground Railroad