Road to Emancipation
The legislation that outlawed slavery above the parallel 36°30′ north in the remainder of the Louisiana territory.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Part of the U.S. in which, by 1810, 1/4 of African Americans were enslaved.
What was The North?
English Enlightenment thinker who said: "Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself".
Who was John Locke?
Slave revolt in a French colony that frightened American slave owners.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
Part of the U.S. wherein 1/3 of the white population could not read and write.
What was The South?
US President who owned over 100 slaves.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Virginia Act that allowed owners to free their slaves.
What was the Manumission Act?
Black Methodist congregation formed by Reverend Richard Allen.
What was Bethel Church?
Kentucky politician who devised the Missouri Compromise, ACS member.
Who was Henry Clay?
A Society that promoted the relocation of slaves.
What was the American Colonization Society?
A type of republic in which liberty/equality is reserved for a specific race.
What is a Herrenvolk ("master race") Republic?"
North Carolina representative in both houses of congress who opposed a powerful federal government and supported slavery.
Who was Nathaniel Macon?