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Ch 16/18 Insights

Ch 16/18 Insights. ID- William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth (P 365) and Frederick Douglass (366) Summary 1- Identify Garrison (using your own words !!!) White, bookish/dorky, frail/small Summary 2- How is Sojouner Truth different from Garrison (LOOK !!!)

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Ch 16/18 Insights

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  1. Ch 16/18 Insights • ID- William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth (P 365) and Frederick Douglass (366) • Summary 1- Identify Garrison (using your own words!!!) • White, bookish/dorky, frail/small • Summary 2- How is Sojouner Truth different from Garrison (LOOK!!!) • African/American woman, haggard (tough but worn) • Summary 3- ID Douglass (using your own words!!) • African/American male, handsome, well spoken, smart

  2. OI- Early Abolitionism, Radical Abolitionism (Abolitionism is the movement to end slavery) • 1) How did the American Colonization Society try to solve the problem of slavery? • Sending ex-slaves back to Africa • Liberia- country settled by US in Africa for former slaves • 2) Why was that solution a problem for African-American slaves by 1860? • American slaves were no longer African but Native born African/American • What American influences do you see in the pictures? Is Liberia a good solution or not?

  3. 3) Think- Why do you feel William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper “The Liberator” was a dramatic step forward in the abolitionist movement? • First newspaper that informed white people of the evils of slavery • 4) What did David Walker’s Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World advocate? • That African-Americans should rise up and fight back against whites • 5) Where did Douglass feel the solution to “end the blight of slavery “would come from? • Political action/ government • What group in society do you feel will be needed to end slavery in US? (Whites, blacks, government)

  4. ID- Stop on an Underground Railroad (p 394), Harriet Tubman (p395) • Summary 4- Describe how this house was a stop on the Underground RR? • Had a hidden room so slaves could hide in daytime. • Summary 5- ID Harriet Tubman (in your own words!) • African-American woman, understated, normal • OI- Sectional Balance and the Underground Railroad • 6) Why would the admission of California upset the South? • It would upset the balance between 15 free states and 15 slaves states

  5. 7) What was the Underground Railroad? • A series of safe houses to help slaves escape to Canada • 8) What did the South want to counter the Underground Railroad? • A stronger fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to the south • 9) Explain- Was the Underground Railroad successful? (Use evidence or logic to back your answer) • Not really, UG only helped around 1000 slaves escape each year out of 2 million, plus more slaves gained freedom by buying themselves or slaves master’s liberating slaves • Yes, because UG worried slave owners that slaves were thinking about escaping and losing property/investment

  6. ID- Compromise of 1850 (397) • Summary 6- What state was admitted to the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1850? • California • Summary 7- What important new LAW did the South gain from the Compromise of 1850? • Fugitive Slave Law

  7. OI- Balancing the Compromise Scales • 10) Why did the North get the better deal from the Compromise of 1850? • North gained a new state w. 2 senators (more political power) • 11) Identify two reasons northerners were against the Fugitive Slave Law? • 1) Limit civil rights (slaves could not testify, could same law be extended to whites) • 2) Northerners were open to receiving fines and jail for not returning slaves • 12) Why was the Fugitive Slave Law such a “blunder” for the South? • FSL woke up anger in the North towards the South

  8. ID- The Gadsden Purchase (look at the map in the back of the book, two pages from the back cover) • Summary 8- What present day state the majority of the Gadsden Purchase located in? • Arizona • ID- Kansas and Nebraska, 1854 (407) • Summary 9-What former territory was Ks and Ne a part of? (look at map at back of book) • Louisiana Territory

  9. Summary 10- Why is the 36’30’ line significant in regards to slavery? • Prevented the expansion of slavery North into the La. Territory • OI- Pacific Railroads Promoters and the Gadsden Purchase, Douglass’s Kansas Nebraska Scheme • Gadsen Purchase- last bit of land added to US in AZ/NM • 13) Why did the South want to purchase the land which would become the Gadsden Purchase? • It would allow for a southern transcontinental RR route • 14) How did the US manage to acquire the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico? • Purchase for $10 million (not war)

  10. 15) Where did Senator Stephan Douglas want the western railroad to end? Why? • Chicago, Ill (so Chicago could become a major city and center of trade) • 16) How did Douglas feel he could get the south to support his RR scheme? • By extending slavery into an area it did not exist • 17) How did Douglas’ plan interfere with the Missouri Compromise? • Mo Compromise was repealed/ended

  11. 18) Why were northerners against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise? • Mo. Compromise was seen as an important document like the Constitution that was just pushed aside • 19) What was the most ‘durable blunder’ of the Missouri Compromise? • Repeal of the Mo. Compromise created the Republican Party • 20) What “dissatisfied elements’ gathered together because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? • Republican party was comprised of ex- Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers (anti-slavery in the west), Know-Nothings (anti-immigrant), and other people against the Ka/Neb. Act

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