Abolition and Women’s Rights in Antebellum America
Abolitionism (pp. 344-354)
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On what grounds did reformers demand the immediate end to slavery?
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How did leading African Americans in the North suggest that free blacks could “elevate” themselves?
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How did whites in many northern cities respond to the efforts by African Americans to achieve social equality with whites?
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What did the self-taught free-black from North Carolina, David Walker, promise white Americans who defended the institution of slavery?
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How did slave revolt leader, Nat Turner use his religious “spirit” to justify his actions?
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What actions did Nat Turner take, and what was the outcome?
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What radical measures did Virginia and other Southern states take in reaction to Nat Turner’s Revolt?
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What did radical Christians warn happen to planters if they did not grant blacks their God-given status?
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What did William Lloyd Garrison intend to accomplish when he published in his anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, “I will not equivocate, I will not retreat one inch; and I will be heard!” and “the U.S. Constitution is a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell”?
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What efforts did female abolitionists like Lucretia Mott contribute to the abolitionist movement?
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What crucial perspective did sisters, Angelina and Sarah Grimke bring to the abolitionist cause?
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What did the Grimke sisters do to advance the cause of abolition?
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Summarize how abolitionists aided fugitive slaves?
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Why was the future of fugitive slaves in the North so uncertain?
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act (1793), and what did northern abolitionists do to thwart is effectiveness?
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According to map 11.3 on p. 351, how did the Underground Railroad assist fugitive slaves?
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What legislative measures did abolitionists seek in Congress to address the question of slavery in the U.S.?
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Who supported such political activities, and how in particular did Transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau support the abolitionists movement?
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How much support did the Abolitionist Movement have?
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For what different reasons did slavery’s proponents support the institution of slavery?
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What did the violent actions of racism in the north reveal about the opposition to abolition?
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What did the Georgia state legislature do to illustrate the racial solidarity of Southern whites?
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What did the House of Representatives do to suppress antislavery debates in Congress?
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What issue created internal divisions within the ant-slavery movement?
IDENTIFICATIONS: On separate paper
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker’s An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
American Colonization Society
“amalgamation”
Gag rule
Liberty Party
The Women’s Rights Movement (pp. 354-359)
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At Mary Walker Ostram’s funeral in 1859, how did her Reverend Fowler describe the political role of women?
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What moral reforms did the middle-class Female Moral Reform Society seek in New York City?
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Identify the particular cause taken up by Massachusetts reformer, Dorothea Dix, and assess the success she achieved.
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What reforms in education did Horace Mann, the Father of Public Education, initiate in his home state of Massachusetts?
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Why were most teachers in the U.S. women by the 1850s?
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What particular aspect of slavery did women abolitionists like Harriet Jacobs try to expose to the American public?
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What best selling novel did Harriett Beecher Stowe write, and what did she say was the greatest moral failing of slavery?
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What factor made women increasingly conscious of their own social and legal inferiority?
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What pragmatic reforms did women’s activists seek during the 1840s? Did they succeed?
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What happened at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848?
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What was the agenda of the first national women’s rights convention in Worcester, MA?
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Who was the most prominent political operative in the women’s rights movement?
IDENTIFICATIONS: On separate paper
Separate Spheres
Cult of Domesticity
Sojourner Truth
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Declaration of Rights and Sentiments of 1848
Susan B. Anthony
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