CH8-S2-Slavery and Abolition

What is emancipation?

• Restraint

• Enslavement

• Setting free

• Abolishing

This term combines root that means "before" with one that means "war" but is usually used specifically to mean "before the American Civil War."

• Emancipation

• Antebellum

• Abolition

• Slave South

What was the gag rule?

• This prevented congressional discussion of antislavery petitions between 1836 and 1844.

• This means "a complete doing away with," which is how it came to be the name of the movement to outlaw slavery.

• People were not allowed to speak about women's rights.

• The prevention of utopian communities.

This man published The Liberator, and was one of the first white Americans to demand immediate freeing of slaves.

• David Black

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

What is abolition?

• Means "setting free"

• Antonym for restraint or enslavement

• Means "complete doing away with"

• Movement to outlaw slavery

This man was born into slavery. He became a great writer and speaker who escaped to the North, where he worked to achieve the freedom of slaves through nonviolent means.

• David Black

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglas

• Nat Turner

This man led a slave rebellion against white plantation owners. He was convicted and hanged for this rebellion.

• Frederick Douglas

• Nat Turner

• David Walker

• William Lloyd Garrison

This free African American took the extreme potion of encouraging slaves to fight for freedom rather than to wait for God or slave owners to end slavery.

• Frederick Douglas

• Nat Turner

• William Lloyd Garrison

• David Walker