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William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist who created "the liberator"

Harriet Tubman

AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST WAS ONE OF THE MAIN "CONDUCTORS" OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Henry Clay

"Great Compromiser" for brokering key agreements like the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

Denmark Vesey

An African American leader who planned a major slave revolt but he was executed before it could take place.

Who was Dred Scott?

An enslaved Black man who sued for his freedom.

What did Dred Scott claim in his lawsuit?

He claimed he was free due to his residence in a free territory where slavery was prohibited.

Abraham Lincoln

16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a powerful anti-slavery novel that fueled abolitionist

Frederick Douglass

A formerly enslaved abolitionist, writer, and speaker who advocated for the end of slavery and equality, " blamed racism on slavery not white people"-Mrs.Shaul

Harriet Jacobs

An African American writer and formerly enslaved woman made "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" which highlighted the struggles of enslaved women.

John Brown

An abolitionist who led the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to incite a slave rebellion ( he was the guy inside the firehouse in the YouTube video she showed us)

Dorothea Dix

A 19th-century reformer who fought to improve conditions for the mentally ill( was an abolitionist)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott

Pioneering women's rights activists who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848(important because they brought national attention to woman rights movement)

Grimke Sisters

abolitionists and women's rights activists who spoke out against slavery and gender inequalities first women to advocate for antislavery

Horace Mann

advocated for free education to all youth

Ralph Waldo Emerson

FAMOUS TRANSEDENTALIST against slavery, wrote books such as "Self-Reliance" and "Nature"

Henry David Thoreau

transcendentalist writer known for his book Walden where he lived for two years in a small cabin near Walden Pond to explore the ideas of simple living, and self-reliance.

How does the economic evolution of the northern and southern colonies lead (somewhat directly) to the North v South slave debate?

The North developed a diverse economy focused on manufacturing so they had no need for slave labor

The South's economy was heavily based on large-scale agriculture so they relied on enslaved labor to grow and harvest these cash crops profitably

How does the Transcendentalist ideal fit into pre-war sentiments of the North?

Transcadentalists and reformers like Emerson and Thoreau brought a new view on slavery which resonated with northerners