Unit 4 Terms

Nativists

People against immigrants

Antebellum

The time period before war

Antebellum Period

Era before the civil war

When was the antebellum period

1820-1860

Calvinists

Pre-Determined by god

millennialism

belief the word was about to end with the coming of jesus

Who led the slave revolts?

Nat Turner

what did they call slavery

the percuilar institution

when did the turner rebellion happen?

1831

what were the impacts of the turner rebellion

slaves couldnt learn how to read, african americans easily get thrown back into slavery, south gets more defensive

Aristocrats

Rich

Poor whites are what % of the population

75%

Mountain people

isolated from the south, hated the planters

Abolitionist Movement

Movement to end slavery

American Colonization Society

The idea of transporting people back to africa

when did the American Colonization Society start

1817

Sojourner Truth

Born into slavery and escaped, devoted life to social reforms (abolition, temperance, womens rights)

William Lloyd Garrison

Started the new england anti slavery society in 1831

when did William Lloyd Garrison start the new england anti slavery society

1831

what newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison make

The liberator

when did William Lloyd Garrison found the american anti slavery society

1833

when did the liberty party form

1840

What did the liberty party

Pledge to end slavery

Frederick Douglass

The leading african american abolisitinist

Harriet Tubman

Leader of the underground railroad