Chapter 14.4 Study Guide
When had most Northern states outlawed Slavery?
1804.
When did Congress ban the importation of African slaves?
1807.
Who was David Walker?
A free African American in Boston how printed a pamphlet urging slaves to revolt. Killed shortly after.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
A women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19 and 20, 1848. Attracted between 100 and 300 men and women, including Frederick Douglass.
What was the Underground Railroad?
An above ground series of escape routes from the South to the North to assist runaway slaves.
How did the Grimke sisters' background help them as abolitionist speakers?
Due to the Grimke sisters growing up on a plantation, they knew first hand everything that went on at a plantation. Everything they said was credible and factual, not dramatized.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
Former slave from New York State and escaped. Won a court case to recovery her son from slavery. She became a very well-known abolition speaker in the North.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Former slave who assisted runaway slaves in 19 journeys on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Former slave who escaped to become an abolitionist speaker in the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Later, Douglass published an auto-biography about his life as a slave, and fearing recapture, he left the country. He came back two years later, bought his freedom, and started publishing an antislavery newspaper.
How did gag rules weaken the proslavery cause?
It showed them to be opponents of free speech.
When did Abolition begin?
Late 1700's.
What significant event happened at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840?
Mott and Stanton were forced to sit silent behind a curtain because "it was not a woman's place to speak in public". William Lloyd Garrison joined them in support of their rights. Started the the women's rights movement.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Published an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator". Angry mob tried to kill him, but the mayor stepped in to save his life.
What are gag rules?
Rules preventing the reading of anti-slavery petitions sent to Congress.
Who were the Grimke sisters?
Sarah and Angelina Grimke were sisters that grew up on a Southern plantation. They believed that slavery was morally wrong, so they moved to the North and lectured in public (even though women weren't supposed to do this).
Who were three other women that contributed to the women's rights movement?
Sojourner Truth (spoke at a convention in Ohio), Maria Mitchell (founded the Association for the Advancement of Women, discovered a comet, and became the first women elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences), and Susan B. Anthony (built the women's movement into a national organization. Support laws that would give married women rights).
What document was made at the Seneca Falls Convention and what was it's significance?
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was a document modeled on the Declaration of Independence that outline the rights that women wanted.
What is Abolition?
The movement to end slavery.
Why were the people at the Seneca Falls Convention reluctant to add suffrage to their list of rights?
They were afraid people would laugh at them.
Who was Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
They were members of an American delegation that attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
What were some of the rights women wanted at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Wage equality, rights of property, freedom of speech, and suffrage.
What is the significance of gaining suffrage as a women's right?
Women would gain political power and could potentially help women gain more rights.
