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- Influence of the Second Great Awakening: End if the 18th century - beginning of the 19th century.... revival. Influence of this religious movement...- belief that with the turn of the millennium Christ was going to come back on Earth and the coming of judgement day.>necessity to prepare and be good, doctrine of perfectionism. Slavery = sin that had to be washed off from society.
- Cristopher ...speech before the Virginia legislature stands alongside Calhoun's as an eloquent statement of the right of secession
- It was common for slaves to be assigned their master's name, as a ...
- The LIberator: Although its circulation was only about 3,000, ...(in 1834) were African Americans. Among its readers were renowned abolitionists such as Sarah Grimké and ....
- Abolitionism was a heterogeneous movement, with William Lloyd Garrison representing one extreme end of its spectrum. An"immediatist" and founder of the ...), who denounced not only slavery but also the Constitution of the United States for tolerating the evil.
- Virtually all white Carolinians regarded the newly established Republican Party, founded in..., as hostile to their political and economic interests.
- The document, published by William Lloyd Garrison on January 1, 1831, is the inaugural editorial of ..., a weekly newspaper published in ...and known as the most uncompromising abolitionist American journal.
- During the...(after the Mexican-American war) sectional crisis over creating new slave and free states, another secessionist movement began in South Carolina.
- The Constitution, Garrison believed, was a pact with the devil that ought to be immediately discarded for its unjust and unnecessary compromises with ...
- An abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer, William Lloyd Garrison came to support the ... of all slaves. This was an unpopular view during the ..., even with northerners who were against slavery.
- Immediatism condemned slavery as a ... called for emancipation at the earliest possible moment, and proposed schemes for...freedmen into American society.(not colonization)
- Thousands of contrabands enlisted in the United States ... when. recruitment started in...
- Secession was gradual. South Carolina was the first state to secede on ..., followed by... in early 1861. (MAGFLT) In spring and June, five more states seceded: ... and the last one in January 1861
- Abolitionism emerged around 1830, with origins traced to the .. view of slavery's violation of the "rights of man" and ... of slavery as un-Christian.
- Oath of ..: Ten Percent Plan offered amnesty and restoration of rights, including property except for slaves to nearly all white southerners who took an oath affirming loyalty to the Union and support for emancipation. When 10 percent of a state's voters had taken the oath, they could elect a new state government.
- Soldiers from... served in both the Union and Confederate armies. The state adopted a policy of neutrality until..., when a pro-Union element gained control of the legislature. Though it never seceded from the Union, there was a sizable pro-Confederate element in the state.
- The '...' believed that the political system was irreparably corrupt, while their opponents initially organized under the Liberty Party and later the ..
- The following year, after the Battle of Gettysburg, Union authorities started sending Confederate prisoners to ... for incarceration
- In response to abolitionist attacks branding slavery as brutal and immoral, the South intensified its system of slave control, particularly after the...
- The fame of the ... unit, led by Robert Gould ..., was notable, particularly for their bravery at Fort Wagner in...