Antebellum Era
The primary movement in the Antebellum era that promoted the end of slavery.
What is abolition?
The Christian excuse for slavery points to these biblical figures.
Who are Cain and Ham?
Douglass was sad that he didn't know this personal fact as a child.
What is his birthday?
The place MLKJ delivered this speech.
Where is the Lincoln Memorial?
The audience of MLKJ's letter.
Who are clergymen?
This movement focused on the banning of alcohol.
What is temperance?
The excuse for slavery that focused on the impact of slave labor on production?
What is economic?
This is how Douglass learns to read and write.
What is tricking white boys to teach him?
This is MLKJ's dream for the future.
What is equality?
The reason MLKJ writes this letter.
What is to refute critiques of his protests?
A movement focused on religious fervor.
What is revivalism?
The primary reason Northerners feared abolition.
What is a migration of freed slaves to the north?
Douglass notes a dramatic change in Mrs. Auld's personality because of this.
What is owning slaves?
This is the promise MLKJ says Americans have not kept with regard to black people.
What is "that all men are created equal"?
The result if African Americans are denied the right to peacefully protest.
What is violence?
This institutional system grew during the Antebellum Era.
What is the public education system?
The excuse for slavery that says Africans simply lost the race for survival against the Europeans.
What is social Darwinism?
Douglass learned this through the slave songs.
What is how dehumanizing slavery is?
MLKJ sees this as a new form of slavery.
What is segregation?
The goal of nonviolent direct action.
What is constructive nonviolent tension.
The dates for the Antebellum Era.
What is 1812-1860?
The excuse for slavery that sees slavery as a meaningful form of employment in which slaves are provided food, clothing, and shelter.
What is paternalism?
The reason Douglass doesn't reveal how he escaped from slavery.
What is other slaves continued to use the same method?
These are the 5 ways MLKJ says blacks are discriminated against.
What are citizenship rights, lodging while traveling, "whites only" signs, voting rights, and ghettos?
The 4 steps of nonviolent direct action.
What are determining if a law is unjust, negotiation, self-purification, and direct action.