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This reform movement called for the immediate and complete end to slavery in the United States. It started in the colonies before the Revolution, was addressed at the Constitutional Convention allowing each state to decide, and continued with the education, temperance, and religious reform movements of the 1800’s.
What was Abolition?
All new states created these, basing their ideals on the Declaration of Independence and the main idea that all men are naturally entitled to liberty. In 1774 Quakers in Pennsylvania ended slavery. In 1783 the Quock Walker case ended slavery in Massachusetts. Between 1783 and 1804, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey outlawed slavery.
What were Early State Constitutions?
This term is the freeing of individual enslaved persons, used in a Virginia state law as an increasing number of slaveholders began freeing slaves they held after the Revolutionary War.
What was Manumission?
This first white Virginian large-scale antislavery effort tried to resettle African Americans in Africa and the Caribbean. After collecting funds from private donors, Congress and a few state legislatures, they purchased land in West Africa and settled free African Americans there to form the nation of Liberia, “Place of Freedom, ” in 1847.
What was the American Colonization Society?
These two abolitionists projected the abolitionists’ cause in the media: one white, founding The Liberator newspaper in Massachusetts; the other an escaped slave who purchased his freedom, founded The North Star newspaper in New York
Who were William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas?
This law marked the United States’ first attempt to stop the spread of slavery in newly acquired territories, stating, “There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the territory. ” This ordinance created a single Northwest Territory, allowing settlers to petition for statehood once the population reached 60, 000.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
After serving as president, this man served in the House of Representatives battling slavery with his proposed constitutional amendments: 1 st – All children born on or after July 4, 1842 shall be free; 2 nd – No new slave states shall be admitted to the union; 3 rd – No slavery nor slave trade shall be conducted in Washington D. C. They did not pass.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
This law was a Federal law written to enforce Article 4, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which required the return of runaway slaves. It angered citizens of free states when updated in 1850, fining marshals $1, 000 for not enforcing it and allowing the deputation of citizens in capturing escapees.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Also called Clay’s Proposal, this agreement allowed Missouri to become a slave state in 1819, only if Maine was admitted as a free state and slavery was prohibited in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36’ 30”N Latitude.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Just months after the war with Mexico, Representative David Wilmot proposed this law that would prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico. Senator John C. Calhoun countered with a proposal that no government had authority to ban or regulate slavery from any territory. Neither proposal passed into law, but they caused bitter debate.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
Another of Clay’s proposals that had to be divided into individual proposals by Stephen A Douglas in order to pass Congress: 1) California would be admitted as a free state, 2) New Mexico would have no slavery restrictions, 3) the New Mexico-Texas border dispute would favor New Mexico, 4) the slave trade would be abolished in D. C. , and 5) there would be a stronger fugitive slave law. Northern citizens were angry about advancing slavery and Southerners said it was the only way to preserve the Union.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
With the goal of opening the West with a transcontinental railroad, Stephen A. Douglas proposed this act to create the territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the right to choose free or slave. The new territories were above 36’ 60” and would have been free, but the plan repealed the Missouri compromise to get southern support.
What was the Kansas. Nebraska Act?
The antislavery members of the Whigs and the Democrats joined forces with the Free-Soilers and formed this new party, who quickly won control of the House of Representatives and several state governments. Democrats now became the party of the South and slavery. The political split on slavery was now almost completely North vs. South.
Who were the New Republicans?
Little known lawyer from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, challenged the long seated Illinois Senator, Stephen A. Douglas, for his seat and to a series of debates, known as this, over the issue of slavery and the continued existence of the Union. Lincoln lost the race for the Senate seat, but gained political notoriety.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
The Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln, won the presidency, against Stephen A. Douglas in this election, on the platform that slavery should be left undisturbed where it existed, but excluded from new territories. This stance attracted both anti and pro slavery voters in the border states (Upper South) who just wanted to avoid secession. Lincoln’s name not on the ballots, Southern states began to secede.
What was the Election of 1860?
Due to neither the Whig candidate nor the Democratic candidate taking a stand for or against slavery in the 1848 election, antislavery Whigs and Democrats formed this political party, calling for “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men. ”
What was the Free-Soil Party?
Soon after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, proslavery groups rushed into Kansas to vote for a proslavery government, including armed proslavery groups from Missouri, called border ruffians, who voted illegally in the Kansas polls. John Brown (self-appointed by God to end slavery) and his four sons led raids on slavery supporters, killing five in what became known as this!
What was Bleeding Kansas?
As the Bleeding Kansas incident spilled over to the halls of the U. S. Congress, Charles Sumner lashed out against proslavery senators, especially Andrew Butler of South Carolina, in a criticizing speech called, “The Crime Against Kansas. ” Butler’s distant cousin, Representative Preston Brooks, walked into the Senate chamber and beat Sumner unconscious with a cane.
What was the Brooks-Sumner Incident?
Financed by a group of abolitionists, John Brown led 18 whites and African Americans on a raid of the arsenal at this location in Virginia, with the hopes of starting a nation-wide revolt against slavery. The raid ended in failure as then Colonel Robert E. Lee captured Brown, who was later executed, leaving fear of more revolts in the South.
What was Harpers Ferry?
Most U. S. military forts in the southern states were immediately taken over by the CSA, except for this fort that was attacked by order of Confederate President Jefferson Davis as Lincoln tried to send in an unarmed expedition with supplies. Southern hostilities against this fort started the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
This term describes an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of a country, highlighting the social and economic differences between the North and the South, industry vs. agriculture, and freedom vs. slavery.
What was Sectionalism?
This novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, used extensive research of facts and documents to portray the horrific daily life of slavery, greatly educating people in free parts of the nation about the reality of slavery.
What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney stated that property, such as the slave Dred Scott, could not sue for freedom because he was not a citizen and had no rights. Furthermore, Taney wrote that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in any territory on the basis of the Fifth Amendment that protects a person’s right to property.
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
Following the lead of South Carolina, the other states of the Deep South seceded and sent representatives to Montgomery, Alabama to form this, or formally called the Confederate States of America, with Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi, as their president.
What was the Confederacy?
Southerners justified their secession from the Union with this theory, arguing that states voluntarily chose to enter the Union with the understanding that the federal government would protect the rights afforded to citizens by individual states or territories, specifically centering on their right to own slaves.
What was the States’ Rights Doctrine?
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