1. ABOLITIONISTS
AND THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Cornell Notes
MR. WOLF

2. Problems with California
By 1850, California had enough people to become a new state.
If California was admitted as a free state, it would upset the balance of free and slave states.
So there had to be a compromise..

3. Compromise of 1850
To please the North, California would be admitted as a free state,
To please the South, Congress would not pass laws regarding slavery for the rest of the territories won from Mexico.
And a stronger law to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. (Fugitive Slave Act).

4. ABOLITION – the movement to end slavery1
ABOLITION – the movement to end slavery

5. What were the main ideas expressed by the abolitionists?
Abolitionists believed that slavery was wrong.
Most abolitionists demanded immediate freeing of slaves.
Abolition leaders included both men and women.
The Quakers were one of the first religious groups to oppose slavery.

6. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was outraged when she heard about the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT part of The Compromise of
As a result, in 1852 Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin; a novel which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral.
This book encouraged many people in the North to become abolitionists.

8. 2
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON – abolitionist who publishes a newspaper called The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison

9. The Liberator was printed in Boston2
The Liberator was printed in Boston
Spread the word of the abolition movement in the North

10. 3
FREDERICK DOUGLASS – an ex-slave who was an emotional and eloquent abolitionist speaker also printed an antislavery newspaper
Frederick Douglass

12. 3
Published a biography of his life to prove he was once a slave and was now a free man

14. 4
SOJOURNER TRUTH – an ex-slave, she was a speaker against slavery
Sojourner Truth

15. Sojourner Truth
and
Abraham Lincoln

16. “BLEEDING KANSAS”
John Brown, a fervent abolitionist, believed that God had chosen him to end slavery.
Brown had recently come to Kansas from Ohio with his 6 sons and a son in law.
One night Brown led four of his sons and two other men along Pottawatomie Creek, where they seized and killed five proslavery men.

18. John Brown’s Raid On Harpers Ferry
He wanted to help the slaves to freedom, so he planned a raid.
He needed guns and ammunition, so he and his followers raided a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia.
Within 24 hours troops led by Colonel Robert E. Lee captured Brown.

19. He was taken to court and charged with treason and was sentenced to be hanged.
He said that he was happy to die for God’s eternal truth.
Southerners saw him as a murderer and were afraid that others would follow his example.
Northerners didn’t like the killings but thought he was a hero.

21. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – a network of people that helped5
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – a network of people that helped
runaway slaves reach freedom in the North

22. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

23. HARRIET TUBMAN – a former slave who helped6
HARRIET TUBMAN – a former slave who helped
large numbers of slaves to freedom through the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman

25. THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – hiding places

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