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The Abolition Movement

Growth of the Abolition Movement

Directions: Answer each of the following items in your notebooks. Use complete

sentences; restate the question if it helps you write your answers.

Read each of the following sections found on pages 215-217 in your textbook.

The Antislavery Movement Grows

1. By 1804 where was legislation passed to end slavery?

2. What did a number of Americans begin to do against slavery

and why?

3. What did William Lloyd Garrison do to promote the abolition

movement?

4. How did his views differ from those of most abolitionists at that

time?

The Backlash Against Abolition

5. What areas of the country spoke against abolition?

6. Why did these areas oppose abolition?

7. Explain the South’s view of slavery? Give more than one example.

8. Explain the North’s view against abolition.

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