Abolitionist Movement

1. Brain Quest
2/5
 What was the Northwest Ordinance?
 What movement led to the increase
development of the abolitionists
movement?
Challenge Question:
NONE
Objective (I Can…)
Interpret the significance of the Missouri
Compromise of 1820 and the rise of the
Abolitionist Movement

2. Missouri Compromise Activity

3. New Movements in America:
Abolitionist Movement
 Define the following terms using your
textbook Pg. 454
◦ Abolition:
◦ William Lloyd Garrison:
◦ Angelina and Sarah Grimke:

4. Differences between Abolitionists
 Who were among the first groups to
challenge slavery? (Hint: one of the first
colonists)
 Abolitionists differed on the amount of
freedom African Americans should
receive
 Robert Finley
◦ Starts the American Colonization Society
 Organization dedicated to establishing colonies of
freed slaves in Africa

5. Brain Quest
2/8
 What were the three parts of the Missouri
Compromise?
 What was important about the Marbury v
Madison court case?
Challenge Question:
If you were there scenario
Objective (I Can…)
Interpret the rise of the Abolitionist
Movement and how Nat Turner’s rebellion
impacted the South.

6. Slavery in America
Nat Turner’s Rebellion

7. Spreading the Message
 William Lloyd Garrison publishes
abolition newspaper, The Liberator in
1831
 1833 he helps to establish the
American Anti-Slavery Society
 Who created a pamphlet called
Appeal to the Christian Women of the
South?

8. Nat Turner’s Revolt Video
 Nat Turner Short Response
w/questions
◦ Complete the questions with a partner
◦ Individually answer the prompt in a
minimum of ONE paragraph

9. Close Out
 How did William Lloyd Garrison help
the spread of the Abolitionist
Movement?
 What does Nat Turner’s rebellion
reveal the cruel institution of slavery?
 Would you consider Nat Turner a Hero
or madman?

10. Compromise of 1850
 Henry Clay in 1820, had resolved a fiery
debate over the spread of slavery. Now,
thirty years later the matter surfaced
again.
 There were several points at issue:
◦ United States had acquired a vast land in
the Mexican Cession.
◦ California, a territory, had grown since the
gold rush and wanted to join the union
(Free State)
◦ Disputed land that Texas claimed
◦ Finally, Washington, D.C. was home to the

11. Illinois (1818) Alabama (1819)
Indiana (1816) Mississippi (1817)
Ohio (1803) Louisiana (1812)
Vermont (1791) Tennessee (1796)
Rhode Island Kentucky (1792)
New York Virginia
New Hampshire North Carolina
Massachusetts South Carolina
Connecticut Maryland
New Jersey Georgia
Pennsylvania Delaware
Maine (1820)
Iowa (1846)
California (1850)
Michigan (1837)
Wisconsin (1848)
Free
States
Slave
States
Original
13
States
Missouri (1821)
Arkansas (1836)
Florida (1845)
Texas (1845)
Since
Missouri
Compromis
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12. Compromise of 1850

13. Compromise of 1850
I. California became a free state.
II. The rest of the Mexican Cession was
divided into two parts; Utah (UT) and New
Mexico (NM).
* People in UT and NM used popular sovereignty
to decide on the slavery issue
III. The slave trade ended in Washington,
D.C.
IV. A stricter Fugitive Slave Law was
passed.

16. • You could be fined and/or
imprisoned for helping a
runaway slave.
Cazenovia, NY, Fugitive
Slave Law Convention held
on 21 and 22 August 1850;
Frederick Douglass is seated
at the right side of the table.
The Fugitive Slave Law
• All Americans, by law, were
required to help catch
runaway slaves.
• This law infuriated
northerners!
Fugitive Slaves and the
Compromise of 1850 as told by
Professor Eric Foner of Columbia
University. (2:53)

17. Frederick Douglass

18. Underground Railroad
 Underground Railroad was not an
actual railroad…what was it?
 Complete the 2 questions on the map
on pg. 457
1. How would the lack of a central
leadership have benefited the
Underground Railroad??

19. Close Out
1. In what ways did African Americans
participate in the abolition
movement?
2. What effect did Nat Turner’s
Rebellion have on southern attitudes
about slavery?
3. In the quotation on pg. 456, what
does Frederick Douglass mean when
he says the Fourth of July is not his?

20. Brain Quest
2/10
 What happened at the battle of Saratoga?
 Why did England enact the Proclamation
of 1760?
Challenge Question:
If you were there scenario
Objective (I Can…)
Interpret the rise of the Abolitionist
Movement and how Nat Turner’s rebellion
impacted the South.

21. Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

22. Kansas-Nebraska Act
I. The Nebraska Territory was divided into two parts:
Nebraska (NE) and Kansas (KS).

23. Kansas-Nebraska Act
II. The people of each territory voted on whether or not to
allow slavery. (popular sovereignty)

24. Kansas-Nebraska Act
* The Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri
Compromise. Both territories were north of 36,30’N and
should NOT have been allowed to have slaves!
Video: Kansas – Nebraska Act (2:38)

25. • Both sides claimed
victory on the vote!
“Bleeding Kansas”
Before the vote on slavery:
• Northerners crossed the
border to keep KS a free
state.
• Southerners crossed the
border to make KS a slave
state.

26. John Brown was particularly affected by the sacking of Lawrence, as
well as by the brutal beating of anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner by
Preston Brooks. (Sumner had given a speech to the U.S. Senate and in
retaliation, Brooks caned him nearly to death.)

27. * In 1856, an abolitionist named John Brown murdered five
proslavery men.
* Over 200 people died in the fighting that followed.
Don’t write this down: John Brown lived
in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory. He was
famous for being an abolitionist (a person
opposed to slavery). Brown and his sons
were responsible for the brutal murder of
several proslavery men near
Pottawatomie, Kansas. The men were
called out of their homes at night and
hacked to death with swords. This was
just one of many incidents that earned
Kansas Territory the name of "Bleeding
Kansas."

28. In May 1858, proslavery settlers executed a group of their free
state neighbors along the Marais de Cygne river in
southeastern Kansas Territory. This event became known as
the Marais de Cygne Massacre.
Video: Bleeding Kansas (4:02)

29. Raid on Harper’s Ferry
 Complete the reading in textbook.

30. Close Out
 Obituary-
◦ Is an news article describing someone who
recently died and it explains who they were
and what they did in their life and only written
for those who made a large significance in
most large cities.
 Write an obituary for John Brown that would
represent the significance of his life, consider
and compare his life from the activities in
Kansas and Harper’s Ferry to his stance on
slavery.

31. Dred Scott activity

32. 5 minute sand timer
5 minutes
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