Chapter 12 Section 2 Notes
Roots of the Antislavery Movement
A number of prominent leaders of the early republic such as ___________________ and
____________________ opposed slavery.
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They believed that slavery violated the most basic principle of the Declaration of Independence,
____________________________________________.
In 1780, __________________ became the first state to pass a law that
__________________________________.
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By 1804, every northern state had ____________________________________________.
Congress also outlawed slavery in the _____________________________.
o As a result, when _____________ entered the Union in 1803, it became the first state to
_____________________________________________.
The _____________________________________, established in 1817, was an early antislavery
organization.
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This society proposed that slaves be ________________________ and
_________________________________, a colony founded in 1822 on the
_________________________________.
The colonization movement ______________________.
o Most enslaved people had _____________________________________ and did not
desire to leave.
o By 1830 only about _________________________________ had migrated to Liberia.
Growing Opposition to Slavery
The ____________________________________ inspired further opposition to slavery.
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Many people were influenced by the preaching of _________________________, who
condemned slavery.
By the mid-1800s, a small but growing number of people were ________________________.
o _________________________________________________.
o Rejecting ___________________________________, abolitionists called for a
_____________________________________________________________.
One of the most forceful voices for abolition was ____________________________________________.
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A Quaker, he strongly opposed the _______________________________________________.
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Garrison was more ______________ than many others, because he favored
_____________________________________ for all African Americans.
In 1831, Garrison launched an _________________________________ called the
_____________________.
o It became the nation’s leading antislavery publication for 34 years, ending only when
____________________________________.
Garrison cofounded the _______________________________________________, which later
became the ______________________________________.
o Leaders of this group included ___________________________, a minister who had
been a pupil of ___________________________.
 Weld brought the zeal of a ________________________________ to antislavery rallies.
o Other members included _______________________________________, daughters of
a _________________________________________.
Prominent _____________________________ in the North took a leading role in the abolitionist
movement.
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In 1829, _________________________ published his Appeal: To the Coloured Citizens of the
World.
o This strongly worded pamphlet urged enslaved people to
_________________________________________________.
Perhaps the most powerful speaker for abolitionism was _______________________________.
o Born into slavery, Douglass had broken the law by ______________________________.
o He later ______________________________________________.
o Garrison and other abolitionists encouraged Douglass to
_____________________________________________________.
o By appearing in public, Douglass risked being _______________________________.
 Yet he continued to speak before _____________________________________.
o He also published his own antislavery newspaper, ______________________________.
Abolitionists won the support of a few _____________________________.
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Former President ______________________________, now a member of _________________,
read _____________________________________ from the floor of the House of
Representatives.
o In 1839, Adams proposed a constitutional amendment that would
___________________________________________________.
 However, the amendment was ________________________.
o Two years later, Adams made a dramatic stand against slavery.
 Captive Africans aboard the slave ship ________________ had rebelled,
_________________________ and ordering the crew to
________________________________.
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Instead the crew _______________________________________.
Adams spoke to the ___________________________ for nine hours and helped
the captives _____________________________________.
The Underground Railroad
Some courageous abolitionists dedicated themselves to _______________________________________.
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They established a system known as the ____________________________
o Despite its name, it was neither ___________________ nor a ____________________.
o It was a network of people-________________________________________________who secretly _______________________________.
Working for the Underground Railroad was ___________________________________.
o _____________________ led fugitive slaves from one ________________ to the next.
 Stations were usually the ______________________________________, but
might be _________________________________.
o Supporters helped by donating _______________, _____________, or
______________________________________________________________.
o Many people ___________________________ to help runaway slaves.
 ____________________, and Indiana Quaker, assisted more than
________________________.
_____________________, who had herself escaped from slavery, escorted more than
_________________ to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
o Tubman was nicknamed the ___________________ after the biblical leader who led the
__________________________________________.
o She proudly told Frederick Douglass that, in 19 trips to the South, she
________________________________.
o Slave owners promised a ___________________________________________.
Each year, hundreds of slaves moved along the Underground Railroad to freedom in the
____________________________________.
o In total, perhaps as many as ______________ gained their freedom this way.
Opposing Abolition
Abolitionists faced ____________________________ in the North as well as the South.
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Many northerners _______________________________________________________.
o Northern ________________________________________ relied on the
______________________________________________.
o
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Northern workers feared that freed slaves might come north and
_____________________________.
Such fears sometimes prompted ________________________________________.
o Mobs attacked ___________________________________.
o In 1835, William Lloyd Garrison was
___________________________________________________________________.
Southerners had long defended slavery as a _____________________________.
o Now as support for abolition grew louder, they ________________________________.
 The state of Georgia offered a __________________ for the
__________________________________ of William Lloyd Garrison.
 Southerners in Congress won passage of a
________________________________________________________.
 ___________________________ unsuccessfully fought for the
________________________________.