Chapter 15 Quiz List: The South and Abolitionism

Vocabulary flashcards covering key abolitionist figures, texts, events, and terms from Chapter 15.

Black Belt

The region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of enslaved people and richest plantation soils, stretching from South Carolina and Georgia into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Nat Turner's Rebellion

An 1831 slave uprising in Virginia that resulted in the deaths of approximately sixty white people and sparked widespread panic and stricter slave codes across the South.

Amistad

A Spanish slave vessel seized in 1839 by enslaved Africans off Cuba, resulting in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that secured their freedom.

American Colonization Society

An organization founded in 1817 dedicated to sending freed Black Americans to Africa, ultimately establishing the settlement of Liberia.

Liberia

A West African republic founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society as a destination for freed American slaves.

An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

An 1829 radical abolitionist tract by David Walker advocating for the violent overthrow of slavery and white supremacy.

The Liberator

A militantly antislavery weekly newspaper founded in Boston in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison, advocating for immediate emancipation.

American Anti-Slavery Society

An abolitionist organization established in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and others to campaign for the immediate and uncompensated end of slavery.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The 1845 autobiography of Frederick Douglass that vividly depicted the horrors of slavery, his struggle for literacy, and his escape to freedom.

Mason-Dixon line

The boundary surveyed in the 1760s between Pennsylvania and Maryland that came to symbolize the division between the free North and the slave South.

Gag Resolution

An 1836 resolution passed by the U.S. House of Representatives requiring all antislavery petitions and debate to be tabled automatically without discussion.

Slave Narratives

Firsthand accounts written or dictated by formerly enslaved people detailing their experiences in bondage and their journeys to freedom.

Nat Turner

A literate enslaved preacher who led a major 1831 revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, believing he was chosen by God to strike down slavery.

Theodore Dwight Weld

A prominent abolitionist organizer of the Lane Rebels who authored the influential 1839 pamphlet American Slavery As It Is.

William Lloyd Garrison

A radical white abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator who demanded immediate, unconditional emancipation without compensation.

David Walker

A free Black abolitionist whose radical 1829 pamphlet urged enslaved people to rise up violently against their oppressors.

Sojourner Truth

A freed enslaved woman, religious orator, abolitionist, and women's rights activist famous for her impassioned speeches against racial and gender inequality.

Martin Delany

A Black abolitionist, physician, and writer who became one of the earliest prominent champions of Black nationalism and African recolonization.

Frederick Douglass

A leading African American abolitionist, former slave, orator, and writer who advocated for emancipation and civil rights through political action.