WJEC A-Level History 601-5817-7
Government, Rebellion and Society in Wales and England c.1485-1603Period study
Government, Revolution and Society in Wales and England c.1603-1715Period study
Politics, Protest and Reform in Wales and England c.1780-1880Period study
Politics, People and Progress: Wales and England c.1880-1980Period study
Political and Religious Change in Europe c.1500-1598Period study
Europe in the Age of Absolutism and Revolution c.1682-1815Period study
Revolution and New Ideas in Europe c.1780-1881Period study
Europe in an Age of Conflict and Co-Operation c.1890-1991Period study
The Mid Tudor Crisis in Wales and England c.1529-1570Depth study
Royalty, Rebellion and Republic c.1625-1660Depth study
Reform and Protest in Wales and England c.1783-1848Depth study
Politics and Society in Wales and England c.1900-1939Depth study
The Religious Reformation in Europe c.1500-1564Depth study
France in Revolution c.1774-1815Depth study
The Crisis of the American Republic c.1840-1877Depth study
Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship c.1918-1945Depth study
Wales: Resistance, Conquest and Rebellion c.1240-1415Breadth study
Poverty, Protest and Rebellion in Wales and England c.1485-1603Breadth study
Reformation and Discovery: Europe c.1492-1610Breadth study
Royalty, Revolution and Restoration in Wales and England c.1603-1715Breadth study
France: Ancien Régime to Napoleon c.1715-1815Breadth study
Parliamentary Reform and Protest in Wales and England c.1780-1885Breadth study
Social Change and Reform in Wales and England c.1890-1990Breadth study
The American Century c.1890-1990Breadth study
Changing Leadership and Society in Germany c.1871-1989Breadth study
Changing Leadership and Society in Russia c.1881-1989Breadth study
The Crisis of the American Republic c.1840-1877
Abolitionism: Garrison, Stowe and John Brown
- 3 things to know
- AS Unit 2 and A2 Unit 4
Overview
American Colonization Society and explain why abolitionists rejected it and gag rule.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Who founded The Liberator, and in what year?
How were abolitionists received in the North itself?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
How did the abolitionism of the 1830s differ from earlier anti-slavery feeling?
Model answer
It demanded immediate and uncompensated emancipation as a moral duty, rather than gradual emancipation or the removal of freed people to Africa.
- 2
Describe the American Colonization Society and explain why abolitionists rejected it.
Model answer
A body that proposed settling freed Black Americans in Liberia; abolitionists and most free Black northerners rejected it as a scheme to remove them from a country that was their own.
- 3
Who founded The Liberator, and in what year?
Model answer
William Lloyd Garrison, who brought out the first number in 1831.
- 4
Summarise Garrison's position on the Constitution and on politics.
Model answer
He held the Constitution to be a pro-slavery covenant, publicly burning a copy, and refused to vote or stand for office, relying instead on moral persuasion.
- 5
Explain what the American Anti-Slavery Society was.
Model answer
The national organisation founded in 1833 which flooded the country with tracts and petitions, and which split in 1840 over the place of women and over political action.
- 6
Why was Frederick Douglass so effective an advocate?
Model answer
He had escaped from slavery himself, so his lectures and his published narrative answered the common claim that abolitionists knew nothing of the institution they attacked.
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