Study Guide Fifteen

Anti-Slavery Movement

and

Intellectual Life 1830-1860

FINAL EXAM

NOTE: If you can answer these questions satisfactorily, you should do well on this section of the second exam. The material below consists of important material from the lecture. Questions on the test will be largely taken from this material.

Terms (definition and significance):

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

American Colonization Society

Liberia

Frederick Douglass

North Star

Benjamin Lundy

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator

New England Anti-Slavery Society

American Anti-Slavery Society

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Underground Railroad

“personal liberty laws”

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Oberlin College

Elijah Lovejoy

Cassius Clay

Thomas R. Dew

George Fitzhugh

gag-rule

“Slave Power Conspiracy”

Questions to Think About:

In what ways were the years 1830-1860 an age of reform?

What were the living conditions of free black in the Northern States in terms of their political and economic situation and rights?

What was the American Colonization Society and why did free blacks oppose it?

What were the origins of the various anti-slavery movements in the US?

How did William Lloyd Garrison’s opposition to slavery differ from that of groups like the Quakers?

What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the anti-slavery movement in the US?

What were the various ways that anti-slavery supporters in the North attempted to help blacks both slave and free?

Why did anti-slavery sentiments die out in the South?

How did pro-slavery ideas evolve in the South?

How did the activities of pro-slavery supporters tend to alienate people in the North?