Us history unit 4

Fredrick Douglass (1817-1895)

American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.

Benevolent Empire

How did advocates of the Benevolent Empire attempt to perfect society By personal contact, testimony, and exhortation. •The term "Benevolent Empire" meant that people, as God's agents, should care for other people.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

William Lloyd Garrison

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Abolition

When nonviolent means did not work, American abolitionists encountered violent opposition to their activities. The issue of slavery became political because it posed a threat to northern white people's freedoms as well.

Republicanism

the belief that government should be based on the consent of the people

The New Middle Class

•Reformers of the 1830s believed that hard work, industriousness, and frugality were the keys to individual success. •The self-made man was the typical individual of the "New Middle Class."

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.