Africans in the Americas: Part 4 Judgment Day 1831 1865

Africans in the Americas: Part 4 Judgment Day 1831 – 1865

1. Who was the The Butler Family of Georgia?

2. What was contradictory to the National claim of being the freest on earth?

3. What was the Greatest Threat to slavery?

4. Who was David Walker, and what was his “Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World?

5. Following Nat Turner’s Rebellion, how were southerners convinced that slavery should be abolished? What arguments were made to justify its continuation? What were concerns of whites when considering abolition?

6. What is a Slavocracy?

7. What were women’s roles in abolition? What was the significance of the Grimke Sisters?

8. What characterized the first immigration and naturalization act? What was the pre-requisite for citizenship or naturalization?

9. What did we learn through the eyewitness testimony of Wife Kimble and Enslaved Harriet Jacobs?

10. What is the significance of Slave narratives, such as Fredrick Douglas’ in the rise of the abolition movement?

11. What were some of the events that led to United States to Civil War?