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100
Published an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, beginning in 1831
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
100

A law that violated the first amendment right of citizens to petition the government. Passed in response to the Abolitionists' work.

What is the Gag Rule?
100
When the majority of the main work of the Abolition movement began. (Answer is a decade)
What are the 1830s?
100

The organization was not an actual railroad but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves.

What is the Underground Railroad?

100

An Anti Slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

200
2 white Southern women who were anti-slavery activists of the 1830s
Who are Angelina and Sarah Grimke?
200

The POV and time frame that all slaves should be freed at once.

What is immediate emancipation?

200
When the American Colonization Society began.
When is 1817?
200

Its members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans. (Hint: WLG)

What is American Anti-Slavery Society?

200

A compromise that proposed that unorganized territory be open to "popular sovereignty" so that people of the territory could decide whether the land would be slave or free.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

300

Born into slavery in Maryland, she escaped and led 300 slaves to freedom.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

300
People who worked to end slavery
What are abolitionists?
300
When the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison.
When is 1833?
300

Believed that slavery was a vital to economy and culture.

Who are the (white) Southerners?

300
In this federal court case it was decided that even if a slave is taken to free territory, they are still property and still cannot try to escape to freedom.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
400
Born a slave, he escaped from slavery when he was 20 and went on to become one of the most important African American leaders of the 1800s.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400

Meaning "to free". Root of the name of William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper, "The Liberator".

What is "liberate"?

400
When the Gag Rule was in place.
What is 1836-1844?
400
Was the president of the first anti slavery society in America. (Hint: famous Quaker)
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
Debate over expansion of slavery arises at the acquiring new land from Mexico. With this compromise, California enters as a free state but las requires that people help catch fugitive (runaway) slaves.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500

A former slave who contributed to the abolitionist cause AND the fight for women's rights.

Who is Sojourner Truth?

500
the POV and time frame that freedom should be granted to slaves over time.
What is gradual emancipation?
500
"Appeal to Christian Women of the South" is written by Sarah and Angelina Grimke to convince them slavery is evil.
When is 1836?
500

A peaceful religious group that founded Pennsylvania and was one of the first to challenge slavery.

Who are the Quakers?

500

This "final straw" in the election of an anti-slavery republican, who opposed the expansion of slavery, was the catalyst that drove the South to secede (become its own nation) from the North. 

What is the 1860 election of Lincoln?


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