A | B |
Southern economy depended on | Slavery |
Started the anti-slavery movement | Quakers |
American Colonization Society | Colony for free African Americans in Liberia in Western Africa |
President who helped establish Liberia for freed slaves | President James Monroe |
John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish | started the first African American newspaper Freedom's Journal |
David Walker | African American early abolitionist |
"An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" | David Walker's article to enslaved people |
Abolitionists | people who exposed the horrors of slavery |
William Lloyd Garrison | White abolitionist founded the Liberator |
Emancipation | freeing of enslaved people |
Angelina and Sarah Grimke | southern sisters who spoke against slavery |
Elijah Lovejoy | campaigned for abolition of slavery in the West |
Horace Greeley | Lobbied for emancipation in the New York Tribune |
Wendell Phillips | Abolition's golden trumpet |
Henry Highland Garnet | "Rather die free ment than live to be slaves |
Isabella Baumfree | Sojourner Truth |
Frederick Douglass | escaped slave edited the journal called the North Star |
Underground railroad | a series of houses where run-away slaves could hide |
Harriet Tubman - conductor underground railroad | "There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other |
Underground railroad conductor who helped 300 + people escape | Harriet Tubman |
Northern mill owners and bankers | depended on the south's cotton - dislike abolitionists |
Abolitionist shot and killed | Elijah Lovejoy |
Proslavery forces believed | they couldn't exist without slavery |
Antislavery forces believed | slavery for any reason was still wrong |
Missouri Compromise | fixed boundaries between slave and free states |