Learning Goal:Learning Goal:

Create a diagram that shows the Create a diagram that shows the four major causes of the Civil War. four major causes of the Civil War. Include a brief summary of each Include a brief summary of each event.event.

Slavery and the Abolitionist Slavery and the Abolitionist MovementMovement

May 5, 2010

““... such is the horrible idea ... such is the horrible idea that I entertain respecting a that I entertain respecting a life of servitude, that if I life of servitude, that if I conceived of there being conceived of there being no possibility of my rising no possibility of my rising above the condition of above the condition of servant, I would gladly hail servant, I would gladly hail death as a welcome death as a welcome messenger.messenger.””

Maria StewartMaria Stewart

... this nation is rotten at ... this nation is rotten at the heart, and ... nothing the heart, and ... nothing but the most tremendous but the most tremendous blows with the sledge-blows with the sledge-hammer of abolition hammer of abolition truth, could ever have truth, could ever have broken the false rest broken the false rest which we had taken up which we had taken up for ourselves on the very for ourselves on the very brink of ruin. brink of ruin.

Angelina GrimkeAngelina Grimke

““Forced from home, and all Forced from home, and all its pleasures,its pleasures,AfricaAfrica’’s coast I left forlorn;s coast I left forlorn;To increase a strangerTo increase a stranger’’s s treasures,treasures,OO’’er the raging billows borne.er the raging billows borne.Men from England bought Men from England bought and sold me,and sold me,Paid my price in paltry gold;Paid my price in paltry gold;But, though theirs they have But, though theirs they have enrollenroll’’d me,d me,Minds are never to be sold.Minds are never to be sold.””

William Cowper William Cowper

Objectives:Objectives:

Understand how slavery was in the Understand how slavery was in the United StatesUnited States

Define AbolitionistDefine Abolitionist Be knowledgeable about key figures / Be knowledgeable about key figures /

events of the abolitionist movement. events of the abolitionist movement.

SlaverySlavery•Most slaves worked on plantationsMost slaves worked on plantations

•Property = no rights under the lawProperty = no rights under the law

•Lived in terrible conditionsLived in terrible conditions

•Often separated from familiesOften separated from families

SlaverySlavery

200 slave 200 slave uprisings in the uprisings in the U.S. between U.S. between 1776 and 18691776 and 1869

Uprisings were Uprisings were one way to rebel, one way to rebel, the other was the other was escape, most escape, most along the…along the…

Underground RailroadUnderground Railroad

Informal network of people aiding escaped Informal network of people aiding escaped slavesslaves Offered shelter/hiding, food, and directions to the next Offered shelter/hiding, food, and directions to the next

friendly spotfriendly spot

Harriet TubmanHarriet Tubman

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Cupboard with a secret compartment

RoutesRoutes

Different escape routes of Slaves.

Notice all of the red in Ohio!

RoutesRoutes

Abolitionist MovementAbolitionist Movement AbolitionistAbolitionist - someone - someone

working to abolish (end) working to abolish (end)

slaveryslavery

Mostly work of American Mostly work of American

womenwomen

3 Events Define the Abolitionist 3 Events Define the Abolitionist MovementMovement

1.) The Kansas-Nebraska Act1.) The Kansas-Nebraska Act

2.) The Raid on Harper2.) The Raid on Harper’’s Ferrys Ferry

3.) The Dred Scott Decision3.) The Dred Scott Decision

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed.

Kansas and Nebraska were given “popular sovereignty”

Thousands of abolitionistsand anti-abolitionists rushed

to the territories to arguewhether they should become

free or slave states

(The right to let the people decide if they wanted slavery or not)

“Bleeding Kansas”

The clash between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists (over the status of Kansas and Nebraska) led to brawls and murders

This led to the nickname“Bleeding Kansas”

Kansas & Nebraska Act

John Brown was a radical abolitionist

He believed slavery must be stopped at all costs, using violence if necessary

Brown planned to raid the federalarsenal at Harper’s Ferry (VA), give

the weapons to fugitive slaves, and lead a slave revolt that would

put an end to slavery

Was John Brown successful?

What do you see that showsJohn Brown’s abolitionist side?

Is it okay to use violenceto stop violence?

Even though Brownfailed, he inspired people to join the abolitionist cause

John Brown Video

The Dred Scott Decision

Dred Scott (slave) sued his master for his freedom because they had traveled to areas where slavery was illegal (IL and WI)

(How can I be a slave in a place that has outlawed slavery?)

The Supreme Court ruled against Scott:

This was a “slap in the face” to

abolitionists workingfor slave rights

- slaves were not (and could never be) citizens of the United States

- because Dred Scott was a slave, he could not sue in federal court. This is a right that citizens have - not slaves!

Dred Scott Video