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9-2: Northerners Change Their Thinking
11/2-3/11
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Introduction Time Period: 1850’s
Question: Should slavery exist in America? Union close to splitting away from Confederacy
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Action Against Slavery
Many Northerners: Abolitionists: end slavery William Lloyd Garrison: famous abolitionist Liberator – anti-slavery newspaper 1833: started anti-slave movement Many followers
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Abolitionist Movement
William Lloyd Garrison American Anti-Slavery Society 1,300 to 250,000 people Wrote to Congress Sent letters to South
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Abolitionist Movement
William Lloyd Garrison Bounty: $500,000 Harriet Tubman 70 slaves to freedom
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Abolitionist Movement
Election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln Slave-owning days were numbered
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Action Against Slavery
Southern Abolitionists Sarah & Angelina Grimke: daughters of slaveholder Spoke against slavery
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Action Against Slavery
Underground Railroad secret routes of escape for slaves Video:
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A Closer Look UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Tracks – secret routes
Stations – secret hiding places Conductors – people helping slaves escape
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A Closer Look UNDERGROUND RAILROAD used by 100,000 slaves
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Critical Thinking UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Why do you think Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery, returned South to help others?
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Comprehension Who were the abolitionists?
People who wanted to end slavery. Abolitionists set up an underground railroad to help slaves escape to freedom in the North or in Canada.
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Books Change Northern Thinking
Frederick Douglass Escaped Slave (21) Abolitionist Leader Able to read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Books Change Northern Thinking
Solomon Northup Freed Slave Twelve Years a Slave Kidnapped (12 years) Friend helped him gain freedom
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Books Change Northern Thinking
Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 Cruelty to slaves in a new way How could someone own somebody else?
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Comprehension Name the authors who turned many Americans against slavery. Frederick Douglass Solomon Northup Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Terminology Intelligence
Network of secret escape routes enslaved African Americans followed to reach freedom in the North Underground Railroad 1) 24 – points 125 – points 48 – points
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Terminology Intelligence Person who wanted to end slavery
Abolitionist 1) 44 – points 7 – points 150 – points
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