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1. Identify and explain the plan of the American Colonization Society (p. 297). 2. Explain why the support for the abolition of slavery increase in the mid-1800s. You must include the following topics in your answer (pp. 298-301): a. David Walker b. William Lloyd Garrison (Liberator) c. American Anti-Slavery Society d. Frederick Douglass e. Sojourner Truth f. The Grimke sisters. 3. Identify and explain the obstacles faced by the abolitionist movement (pp. 301-302).

Study Guide Questions:


 * 1) Where did the American Colonization Society plan on sending freed African-Americans?
 * 2) Why did the plan of the American Colonization Society fail? Why didn't more African-Americans support and take part in this "movement?"
 * 3) Why did both Northern Aboloitionists and Southern Plantaion Owners agree on the plan of the American Colonization Society?
 * 4) What were the differences between the opinions of David Walker and William Lloyd Garrison? How did their views on how and why to abolish slavery differ?
 * 5) What society was Frederick Douglass a prominent speaker in? How did this society help to create more widespread support of abolition of slavery?
 * 6) Who were the leaders of the women's abolitionist movement? What were the differences in these two leader's backgrounds?
 * 7) Why did the abolotionist movement splinter? What were the differences in the two factions of abolitionists?
 * 8) How did abolitionists view women's rights? How did this weaken the abolitionist movement as a whole?

Study Guide Answers:


 * 1) The American Colonization Society planned on sending freed African Americans to Liberia to form a colony.
 * 2) Barely any African-Americans wanted to create a colony in Liberia. They thought that this plan was extremely negative and not worthwhile at all.The society soon failed because of a lack of freed slaves with interest in Liberia.
 * 3) Northern Abolitionists genuinely wanted African Americans to be freed and some southerners wanted to rid the United States of all African Americans because they did not believe in the equality of African Americans.
 * 4) David Walker was a freed slave who advocated for a large slave uprising; he believed in this uprising because of the injustices he experiences as a slave. William Lloyd Garrison was a white abolitionist who believed that slavery was wrong because in both the bible and declaration of independence there was advocation against it.
 * 5) Frederick Douglass was a freed slave who was one of the most prominent speakers of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The American Anti-Slavery Society flooded the nation with anti-slavery publications and speakers.
 * 6) The Grimke sisters were former plantation and slaver owners from the South and reformed their views and advocated against slavery and for women's rights. Sojourner Truth was an escaped slave who preached on the streets of New York City about abolition and women's rights.
 * 7) The abolitionist movement splintered because some abolitionists supported violent and fast means to destroy slavery, while others supported the slow decline of slavery through law-making and voting for appropriate representatives.
 * 8) Some abolitionists did not want women's rights to expand along with the abolition of slavery, while others thought that the abolition of slavery and women's rights went hand-in-hand.