Unit 5: The American Civil War

What was the northern White attitude towards slavery?

apathy, indifference, and ignorance up until the 1830s

Who was William Lloyd Garrison and what did he do?

• American abolitionist

• Co-founded an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator

• Co-founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society

Who was Elijah P. Lovejoy and what happened to him?

an American abolitionist martyr to the causes of abolitionism by a pro-slavery mob while trying to defend his printing press

What were the economic concern about the California “forty-niners”?

• hostility in gold mining camps

• outlaw of slavery since it devalued waged labor

What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

an influential anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicting the brutal realities of slavery

What was the importance of Frederick Douglass?

• escaped slavery in 1838 and wrote on autobiography

• English admirers purchased his freedom in 1845 and became an abolitionist leader

• thought that emancipation was not an end goal because freedom did not = equality

• sought to end discrimination on the basis of gender, race, and ethnicity