1. Please take a reading on your abolitionist leader from the back table.

2. Unit 3: Civil War

3. Abolitionist Leaders
Gather notes on your abolitionist & be prepared to share
Name & Background info (hometown, early life, etc.)
Why was he/she an abolitionist?
What did he/she do to end slavery? (Be detailed here!)
Was he/she successful?

4. Abolitionist Leaders Jigsaw
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Share information & take notes
Who was this person? (Background info)
Why was he/she against slavery?
What did he/she do to try to stop it?

5. Timeline 1793: Cotton Gin is invented
Increased cotton production  increased need for slaves
Early 1800s: Second Great Awakening
Religious revival  focus on justice
1820: Missouri Compromise passed
Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state (keeps the balance in the Senate)
North of 36 30’ is free, South is slave
No one is happy

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7. Timeline 1793: Cotton Gin is invented
Increased cotton production  increased need for slaves
Early 1800s: Second Great Awakening
Religious revival  focus on justice
1820: Missouri Compromise passed
Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state (keeps the balance in the Senate)
North of 36 30’ is free, South is slave
No one is happy
1830s: Abolitionist movement begins

8. Timeline 1850: The Compromise of 1850
CA enters as a free state, slavery allowed in Utah & New Mexico territories
Fugitive Slave Law: Escaped slaves must be returned to their owners
Lincoln was a lawyer in Illinios. He gives a speech denouncing the Kansas-Nebraska Act & calls slavery immoral.
Lincoln advocated against spreading slavery to the new territories in hopes that this would preserve the Union & see slavery die out over time by being confined to just the Southern states.

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