Chapter 15 Quiz List: Abolition and Slavery

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, historical figures, events, and texts from Chapter 15 relating to slavery and the abolitionist movement in the United States.

Black Belt

The region of the Deep South stretching from South Carolina and Georgia into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, known for its rich, dark soil and heavy concentration of enslaved plantation laborers.

Nat Turner's Rebellion

An 1831 slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia, led by Nat Turner, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 60 white people and prompted Southern states to enact much stricter slave codes.

Amistad

A Spanish slave ship seized in 1839 by enslaved Africans off the coast of Cuba; the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ultimately declared the captives free.

American Colonization Society

An organization founded in 1817 that advocated for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people and their resettlement to Africa.

Liberia

A West African nation established in 1822 by the American Colonization Society as a settlement for emancipated and free African Americans.

An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

An influential and radical 1829 abolitionist pamphlet written by David Walker that urged enslaved Black Americans to violently rebel against slavery.

The Liberator

An influential militant antislavery weekly newspaper published in Boston from 1831 to 1865 by William Lloyd Garrison, advocating for immediate and uncompensated emancipation.

American Anti-Slavery Society

An abolitionist society established in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and other reformers dedicated to the immediate eradication of slavery.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

An 1845 autobiographical account written by Frederick Douglass detailing his experience under slavery, his attainment of literacy, and his escape to the North.

Mason-Dixon line

The boundary originally surveyed between Pennsylvania and Maryland that came to symbolize the division between the free North and the slaveholding South.

Gag Resolution

A procedural rule passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in 1836 requiring that all petitions and memorials relating to the abolition of slavery be tabled automatically without discussion.

Slave Narratives

Literary and historical autobiographical accounts written or dictated by formerly enslaved people that exposed the realities of slavery and bolstered the abolitionist cause.

Nat Turner

An enslaved preacher and visionary who orchestrated and led a major, violent insurrection against slaveholders in Virginia in August 1831.

Theodore Dwight Weld

A prominent abolitionist orator and writer who compiled the influential 1839 pamphlet 'American Slavery as It Is'.

William Lloyd Garrison

A prominent, radical white abolitionist who founded the newspaper 'The Liberator' and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.

David Walker

A free Black abolitionist whose militant 1829 pamphlet 'An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World' called for armed rebellion against slavery.

Sojourner Truth

A formerly enslaved Black woman, prominent abolitionist, and orator who advocated tirelessly for both the end of slavery and women's rights.

Martin Delany

An African American abolitionist, physician, and writer who was among the foremost early advocates of Black nationalism and emigration back to Africa.

Frederick Douglass

A formerly enslaved African American leader, orator, writer, and statesman who became one of the most prominent figures in the abolitionist movement.