1. Chapter 15.2

2. What did antislavery societies generally believe about ending slavery
What did antislavery societies generally believe about ending slavery? What steps did they want to take?
They wanted to end slavery gradually so that the South’s economy would have time to adjust
First step: was to end the slave trade
Second step: phase out slavery

3. Who was Benjamin Lundy? Quaker Founded a newspaper in Ohio
His message was to spread abolitionist ideas

4. What is the American Colonization Society. What did they want
What is the American Colonization Society? What did they want? How did they help African Americans?
A group of powerful white people
They wanted to send free African Americans to Africa to start new lives
Liberia “place of freedom”
Did not stop the growth of slavery
Only sent about 10,000 to Africa because most wanted to remain free in America

5. What are the two main goals of the antislavery groups until the 1830s?
Gradualism and Colonization

6. Who is William Lloyd Garrison
Who is William Lloyd Garrison? What did he write and what group did he start?
A white abolitionist
Started the newspaper called the Liberator
Started the New England Antislavery Society

7. Who are the Grimke sisters and what did they do with their inheritance?
Wealthy sisters who grew up in South Carolina in a slave holding family
Asked for their inheritance early and were given slaves, they freed those slaves

8. What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write and was it popular?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
About how cruel and brutal slavery was
It was very popular, and banned in the South

9. What was the risk of Frederick Douglass joining the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society?
Being captured and returning to slavery

10. What did Frederick Douglass edit?
Antislavery newspaper: North Star

11. How did Frederick Douglass become free? (Two parts to this answer)
He ran away
1847 his friends helped buy his freedom

12. Who is Isabella Baumfree?
She was born a slave
Escaped to the North
Sojourner Truth

13. Who were the passengers of the Underground Railroad?
Escaping slaves from the south

14. What were the stations of the Underground Railroad?
Barns, basements, and attics on the way to the North

15. Were whites and African Americans Harriet Tubman
Who were the conductors of the Underground Railroad? The most famous one?
Were whites and African Americans
Harriet Tubman

16. What happened to William Lloyd Garrison and Elijah Lovejoy?
WLG- a riot, jailed for his protection
EL- mobs attacked his newspaper, shot and killed

17. White Southerners claimed slavery was necessary to the Southern economy and it allows Southern whites to reach a high level of culture…What does this mean?
White southerners believed that there should be social classes: workers and a higher class to create society/culture

18. What was the white Southerners argument about slaves vs
What was the white Southerners argument about slaves vs. Northern workers?
Slaves were treated well, fed and taken care of, medical needs provided
Workers were worse off than slaves, they had to pay for their own things and nothing was provided for them

19. Women’s rights movement
As the tensions grew between pro-slavery and antislavery groups, which movement also became to grow?
Women’s rights movement