1. The Start of the Abolition Movement

2. Do Now
Take out your Start of the Abolitionist Movement Worksheet, and vocabulary sheet
Describe something you learned while completing the worksheet

3. Tobacco Industry Regulation
In the 1900s smoking cigarettes was seen as a normal activity

4. Tobacco Industry Regulation
Doctors recommended brands in advertisements

5. Tobacco Industry Regulation
Television actors smoked on television, movies, and advertisements

6. Tobacco Industry Regulation
Cigarette advertisements were on television commercials

7. Tobacco Industry Regulation
Women and children were advertised to

8. Tobacco Industry Regulation
Even Santa got into cigarette advertising!

9. 1964
The Surgeon General report linked cigarette smoking to cancer

10. 1965
Cigarette packs require a warning label

11. 1971
Cigarette advertising is banned on television

12. 1992
The Supreme Court rules that the warning labels on cigarette packs do not shield companies from lawsuits

13. 1995
California bans smoking in all enclosed public places, including all bars and restaurants. As of January 2014, 28 states have enacted this ban

14. 1996
Target Company stops selling cigarettes

15. 1997
Joe Camel is banned after inside documents prove tobacco companies were intentionally advertising to children

16. 1999
Tobacco advertisements are banned on billboards

17. 2010
A ban on the use of the deceptive terms "light," "mild" and "low" tar in the marketing and sale of cigarettes.

18. 2014
CVS Pharmacy stops selling cigarettes

19. 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

20. 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?

21. Answer
First they wanted to stop the slave trade.

22. Slave Trade

23. 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.

24. Question 2
Explain the American Colonization Society. Who were they? What did they do? Where did they send people?

25. 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.

26. Question 3
What were 2 reasons the American Colonization Society not stop the growth of slavery?

27. 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.

28. Question 4
What are 3 things William Lloyd Garrison did for the antislavery movement?

29. Answer
He started a newspaper called The Liberator

30. Answer
He was one of the first white abolitionists to call for an immediate end to slavery, and rejected a slow, gradual approach.

31. Answer
He attracted enough followers to start the New England Anti- Slavery Society in 1832 and the American Anti-Slavery Society the next year.

32. Question 5
What 2 things did the Grimké sisters do for the antislavery movement?

33. Answer
While living in Philadelphia, the Grimké sisters spoke out for both abolition and women’s rights.

34. 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.

35. Question 6
List 3 things African American abolitionists did to try to stop slavery.

36. Answer
African Americans helped organize and lead the American Anti-Slavery Society

37. Answer
They subscribed to The Liberator

38. Answer
Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm started the country’s first African American newspaper Freedom’s Journal.

39. Answer
David Walker published a powerful pamphlet against slavery, and challenged African Americans to rebel and overthrow slavery.

40. 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.

41. Question 7
List 3 things Frederick Douglas did to try to stop slavery

42. Answer
He joined the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society

43. Answer
He traveled widely to speak at abolitionist meetings, and even appeared in London and the West Indies

44. Answer
He was a powerful speaker who often moved listeners to tears

45. Answer
He also edited the antislavery newspaper North Star

46. Question 8
Why did Frederick Douglas choose to remain in the United States? What did he insist on?

47. 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.

48. Question 9
Why is Sojourner Truth important to the abolitionist movement?

49. 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.

50. Question 10
List 3 reasons Southerners defended slavery

51. Answer
They claimed that slavery was necessary to the Southern economy and had allowed Southern white to reach a high level of culture

52. 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.

53. 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.

54. 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.