Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Lincoln on Slavery? Chapter 15
This state ordered every town to build an elementary school
New York
Give a reason why Northern workers would oppose abolition
freed slave might take their jobs or the economy might suffer or they are racist or prejudiced
What words in the Declaration of Independence made some people believe that slavery should be abolished?
“All men are created equal”
Because of the Temperance Movement, some states like Maine did this.
banned the sale of alcohol
What two reform movements did Sojourner Truth and the Grimke Sisters actively support?
abolition and women’s rights
By the 1850’s, free public elementary schools existed in most _______________ states
northern
Most schooling in the 1800s never went passed this grade.
8th
Southerners who owned no slaves defended slavery because they believed it was needed for the southern ______________ to survive
economy
Members of the ___________ movement tried to get people to give up alcohol
temperance
The ____________ __________ Awakening was the name of a religious movement
Second Great
The American Colonization Society wanted free blacks to settle here
Liberia
How much money was offered for the capture of Harriet Tubman? Daily Double
$40,000
Dorothea Dix worked for prison reform because many of the prisoners were this
mentally ill
What was a sign that a house was safe for runaway slaves?
lantern in the window
What help could a slave get if he knew the hidden meaning of the song “Follow the Drinking Gourd”
To get North by following the North Star
True or False Abraham Lincoln believed that “men” in the phrase “All men are created equal” included black men.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE Lincoln believed that the people who wrote “all men are created equal” meant that whites and blacks were equal in all respects.
FALSE “…they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity. ”
Explain how the following Lincoln metaphor relates to slavery or the South: “Nonsense! Wolves devouring lambs, not because it is good for their own greedy maws, but because it is good for the lambs!!! ”
The South defends slavery stating slavery is actually for the good of the slave. In Lincoln’s metaphor, the slave is the lamb and the wolf is the slaveholder. Of course the lamb does not want to be eaten and it is not for the good of the lamb that the wolf eats the lamb.
The American Colonization Society had a plan for freeing slaves that Lincoln at one time agreed with. What was the plan?
Buy slaves from plantation owners and send them to Liberia in Africa.
He was the most famous white abolitionist and published the newspaper The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry “Box” __________ had himself mailed to freedom in the North
Brown
Who said this? "I appear before you this evening as a thief and a robber.I stole this head, these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them."
Frederick Douglas
How may northerners out of 10 million were involved in anti- slavery societies? Daily Double A. 250, 000 B. 1,000,000 C. 2,500,0000 D. 5,000,0000
A. 250, 000
Who is this famous woman who worked for the women’s suffrage movement?
Susan B. Anthony
Approximately how many slaves are believed to have escaped from the North before the Civil War? A. 60, ,000 B. 100, ,000 C. 250, ,000 D.500,000-1 million
A. 60, ,000