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Andrew Jackson | Elected President in 1828 |
"Political" reason against slavery | Declaration of Independence"all men are created equal" |
"Religious" reason against slavery | Quakers "all men equal in the eyes of God" |
Second Great Awakening | powerful religious movement in the early 1800's |
Charles Grandison Finney | Strong leader of "Second Great Aw akening" |
American Colonization Society | proposed to end slavery by setting up a colony in Africa for freed slaves |
Liberia | Nation in founded in Africa for freed slaves from U.S. |
Paul Cuffe | Black American who spent $4,000 of his own money to set up 38 slaves in Liberia |
"most blacks..." | opposed colonization in Liberia |
abolitionists | people who wanted to end slavery in the U.S. |
Cornish & Russwurm | set up an antislavery newspaper called, "Freedom's Journal" |
David Walker | black abolitionist-published "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" |
Frederick Douglas | best known black abolitionists- spoke worldwide against slavery |
William Lloyd Garrison | most outspoken white abolitionist |
Liberator | antislavery newspaper launched by Garrison |
Angelina&Sarah Grimke | former slave holders who came to hate it and worked for its abolition |
underground railroad | network of abolitionists that secretly helped runaway slaves to freedom in North and Canada |
Harriet Tubman | Former slave who helped over 300 slaves to freedom |
some opposed abolition | they feared that slaves would take their jobs because they would work for lower wages |
$40,000 | Reward for the capture of Harriet Tubman |