Abolitionism
Who's Frederick Douglass
Famous Abolitionist who was born into slavery and escaped.
What is suffragism?
Fighting to give women the right to vote.
Alcohol
Daily Double: 1) Outside of Cotton Production what was the largest industry in the South? 2) What was the humane impact of this industry?
1) Domestic Slave Trade
2) Split up families
Daily Double: What was the Underground Railroad? Who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
A network that lead escaping slaves to freedom in the north. Harriet Tubman
Daily Double: 1. What was the American Colonization Society? 2. What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
1. American Colonization Society believed in sending African Americans to colonize Africa
2. American Anti-Slavery Society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and it was the largest abolitionist organization in the US.
What was the name of the first convention that discussed women's equality in the United States? Name one of the organizers of the convention.
Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Lucretia Mott
Daily Double: Name 2 Utopian societies that we covered in class and describe what made them different.
Shakers, Oneida, New Harmony
Name a crop outside of Tobacco or Cotton that was grown on Southern plantations.
Sugar and Rice
Elijah Lovejoy did what?
Died, he was seem as a martyr for the Abolitionist movement.
How did William Lloyd Garrison view the American Constitution?
He saw it as the Devil's document because he believed it defended slavery.
Daily Double: 1. Who was the first Abolitionist to make the connection between Abolitionism and Feminism?
2. What was this connection?
1. Angelina Grimké
2. If equality should be expanded to PoC then it makes sense it should be expanded to women
Dorathea Dix worked to reform what in the US?
Mental Hospitals
Religion
Who is Nat Turner and what did he believe?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote what book? What was so important about this book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin was useful in humanizing the conditions of the enslaved to a northern audience.
What were one of the social issues discussed at the Seneca Falls Convention?
1.Ability to work
2.Marriage
3.Bodily Autonomy
What was the overall belief that caused so reform movements to launch in the 19th century. Describe this belief to the class.
Perfectionism: was the belief that you could work to make the world and yourself perfect.
Describe the events of The Amistad
There was a rebellion on a slaver's ship where the enslaved took control.
The US took control of the ship
The enslaved were freed and sent back to their homeland after a Supreme Court Case
What African country was formed by American colonization?
Liberia
What was the name for the Abolitionist Strategy to stop slavery? Name one Abolitionist Argument and describe it in detail.
Moral Suasion,
1.Birthright Citizenship
2.Constitution Law
3.Declaration of Independence
4.Bodily Integrity
What three areas of American life were the main focus of the Seneca Falls Convention
Civil, Social, Religious
What caused Utopian Societies to become popular during the 19th century
They were a response to the perceived selfishness in American Society caused by the Market Revolution.
Name two arguments of the Southern Elite that defended slavery?
1.Racial Superiority
2.The Bible
3.Important to economy
4.Equality for whites
5.Northern “Wage Slavery”
6.History
How did Creole languages emerge in the United States.