Use the information in the lesson to answer these questions. Answer the questions completely and thoroughly.
What compromise regarding slavery was reached by the delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention?
Who founded a newspaper in 1822 to spread the abolitionist message?
What was the aim of the American Colonization Society?
Where did many African Americans settle between 1822 and 1865?
What was the name of Garrison’s newspaper?
What reform did Garrison call for?
Who were Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
How did the Grimke sisters receive their family inheritance, and what did they do with it?
When did African Americans hold their first convention?
What African American abolitionist edited an antislavery newspaper called The North Star?
What African American former slave worked for abolition and women’s rights after changing her name from Isabella Baumfree?
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Why did Southerners believe abolition threatened their way of life?
What economic concerns fed the fear of abolition in the North?
| Your Responses | Sample Answers |
|---|---|
| Each state would be allowed to decide whether to allow slavery. | |
| Benjamin Lundy | |
| to resettle African Americans in Africa or the Caribbean | |
| Liberia | |
| The Liberator | |
| immediate and complete emancipation of enslaved people | |
| sisters from South Carolina who moved to the North to lecture and write against slavery | |
| They persuaded their mother to free those enslaved on their farm. | |
| 1830 | |
| Frederick Douglass | |
| Sojourner Truth | |
| Harriet Tubman | |
| The South’s way of life depended on enslaved labor. | |
| Northerners feared that formerly enslaved African Americans would take their jobs by agreeing to work for less money. | |
